Modern Marvels

Season 12, Episode 53

Episode Title: F-117 Nighthawk Stealth

Air Date: 2005-09-22

Overview:

The project was surrounded by secrecy and dogged by controversy from the very beginning. Starting in the late '70s, engineers at Lockheed's legendary "Skunkworks" developed a revolutionary new fighter that was destined to transform aerial combat forever. Little more than a decade later, the F-117 Nighthawk Stealth fighter saw combat for the first time in Panama.