WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio, Oct. 8 -- The U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology issued the following news release:
Nearly two decades after the U.S. Air Force retired the airframe from combat, one F-117A Nighthawk had the rare opportunity to take to the skies once more: this time, in the cargo hold of a C-5M Super Galaxy. The historic stealth aircraft, bound for the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, would soon join the institution's permanent collection.
The two-day, cross-country mission required precise weight distribution and millimeter-level clearances to fit the 29,500-pound load into the C-5M's cargo compartment. For the 512th Airlift reservists,...