After years in use, the F-117 was retired to make way for a new generation of stealth aircraft. So why is the legendary stealth jet still in flight?

Two years after the initial hubbub, the U.S. Air Force declassified the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, which aviation watchers had ...

The F-117 has no afterburners to give it extra thrust ... the project was a sufficient enough success to proceed with a production model, which took its first flight from Area 51 in 1981.