Attachment 67659

22 F-117s.

One of these mighty beasts flew overhead this morning on the way from the Airbus factory in Toulouse to their plant near Chester, presumably to collect wings and/or fuselage sections.

Cloud cover prevented a visual sighting so I had to make do with a view on Flightradar24.com.

Yeah, ha, ha, right.
As if that thing could fly.

Flying Quasimodo...

Nesting on Long Island...

Hellcats, or Wildcats, or Bearcats? I can't remember which is which...

Hmmm... the canopy starts before the wing so I think that rules out those cats? Avenger?

You may be right. I can't see or remember.

Douglas SBD Dauntless. That's what google says anyway.

Top of the tail ain't right.

I want answers!

This probably won't help but here's HW.

Rough calculations indicate that that little lineup of (22 or so) F117's represents about 2 and a half billion bucks.

In the what's-that-running-down-your-leg department:
"On their first deployment, with the aid of aerial refueling, pilots flew non-stop from Holloman to Kuwait, a flight of approximately 18.5 hours—a record for single-seat fighters that stands today." Wikipedia

That was a neat li'l tidbit.