the YF-22 (now designated the F-22 Raptor). By most accounts, however, the Black Widow II was even better than the plane that would become the Raptor. When the Air Force commissioned the ATF, they ...

Decades later, however, Yeager was also a test pilot for the ATF program to develop America’s fifth-generation stealth ...

Chief configuration designer for the YF-23, Northrop’s contender for the Air Force’s Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) competition won by Lockheed’s F-22, Cummings continues to be active in ...