haha i've read the whole thing and i would like to make some
truth out of the crap they wrote haha ok here i go
Almost one year to the day, July 1987, Congress announced that
the F-19 Specter was to be cancelled. On an interesting note,
Lockheed already had a stealth aircraft, the F-117 Nighthawk,
flying at the Tonopah Test Range, Nevada. But since both aircraft
teams were sworn to secrecy, neither knew of each others
existence
This program is called the B2 stealth bomber...which was being
worked at the same time by Northtorp...the only other stealth
program.it was not cancelled but buried deeper since it was not
found out
Specter Five was destroyed in a training accident in 1985 when
the primary flight control hydraulic pump failed in flight. The
pilot ejected safely
This happened to the HB 1002 aka the 2nd prototype interestingly
enough
Specter Six was also destroyed in a training accident in 1986
when pilot, Capt. Dirk Squarejaw Pottenger over stressed the
airframe in a 15g turn and catastrophic airframe damage occurred.
Luckily, Squarejaw did eject safely and now in the Guinness Book of
World Records as the only human to survive a 15g ejection from an
aircraft.
HB1001 aka the 1st prototype was lost when the land gear got
stuck...pilot bailed out...was knocked unconscious in the
process....
Specter Two was stripped of it components and was towed to the
flight line fire pit for fire training and of last report was
completely destroyed after one fire exercise due to the carbon
fiber make up of the aircraft.
the prototype for the 1st production plane crashed right after
take off.....due to some ass plugging the computer wires
wrongly..the plane yawed instead of pitching....
1 F117 was lost in a crash in a hill.... so there....
