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.
Historic aircraft and buildings of the National Museum of the Air Force were extensively damaged by a tornado that his Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
When one hears the phrase “combat mission,” it’s reasonable to assume that the most dangerous element of such a sortie is the combat piece, the actual tim