ACADEMY PLASTIC HOBBY MODEL KIT 1/48 F-117A Stealth Fighter

On 16th January 1991, the first manned USAF aircraft to fly into hostile Iraqi airspace were the F-117As of the 37th TFW based at the Tonpah Test Range Airfield in Nevada and led by Cot. Al Whitley. At approximately 1:30 am on 17th January 1991 the first bomb of Operation Desert Storm was dropped by an F-117A on an Iraqi telecommunications certer in Baghdad. In the early morning of that first attack, two squadrons of F-117As dropped approximately sixty 2,000 pound bombs on the headquarters of the Iraqi Air Force, SCUD missile bunkers, ammunition storage facilities and major Iraqi air defense, control and command facilities.
The F-117A is built mostly of aluminum and some titanium. The flat angles, or facets, help hide the aircraft from radar by reflecting the signal everywhere except back to the radar transmitter/reciever. To aid in it is invisibility the Stealth is covered with Radar Absorbent Material (RAM) which is the matted black finish you see. The F-117A is powered by two General Electric F404-GE-F1D2 engines with 12,000 pounds of thrust each which carry it to and estimated top speed of March 0.92. It carries all weapons internally, the most often used being the GBU-27A Paveway III Bombs.

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