When Lockheed's F-117 Nighthawk entered service in 1983, it revolutionized military aviation by using stealth over speed to evade detection. This breakthrough stemmed from Denys Overholser at Lockheed's Skunk Works, who discovered Soviet physicist Pyotr Ufimtsev's work on radar wave diffraction.
The 'Pioneers of Stealth' memorial at the National Museum of the United States Air Force Memorial Park pays a remarkable tribute to the visionary engineers and scientists who revolutionized modern warfare with the groundbreaking stealth technology.
The Have Blue project, a covert endeavor during the height of the Cold War, paved the way for one of the most revolutionary advancements in modern aviation history: stealth technology.