Looking more like a giant faceted gemstone than something designed to lift-off, the aircraft (nicknamed the "Hopeless Diamond") had been flown out to Groom Lake in parts aboard a Lockheed C-5 ...

This eventually became the F-117 and then led to a series of aircraft including the modern Joint Strike Fighter, which is a stealth aircraft. Now stealth technology has gone off in different ...

The aircraft that resulted was the F-117 Nighthawk, better known as the first stealth fighter. This is not that story. ... This resulted in the famed "Hopeless Diamond" design, ...

Hopeless Diamond Reenacting Bombing Missions in an F-117 Nighthawk Ride along on a Microsoft Flight Simulator journey through history in the world’s first top-secret stealth aircraft.

Moving on from the 10-foot Hopeless Diamond, they arrived at the White Sands radar range with a 38-foot mock-up of the aircraft, made of wood and painted black.

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The pioneer of the US military’s stealth aircraft revolution, which owes its distinct “Hopeless Diamond” shape to its ability to scatter radar energy, first flew in 1981 but remained ...