Aviation spotter and photographer Michał Rokita reached a yet undisclosed spotting point near Tonopah Test Range from where he shot the local-based F-117s working with an L-100, and also a somewhat mysterious aircraft.
The YF-118G Bird of Prey indeed lifted a number of eyebrows in its day, and it remains as revered as its design was bizarre. Boeing wanted to leapfrog their competition, and the company was working on methods to design and create sophisticated stealth planes that were cheaper to build yet more advanced than those of their competitors.
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