{"id":448709,"date":"2026-06-07T23:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/back-why-f-117-nighthawk-flying-again\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T23:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T13:00:19","slug":"its-back-why-the-f-117-nighthawk-is-flying-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=448709","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Back: Why The F-117 Nighthawk Is Flying Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2048290\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/powerful-lockheed-f-117-nighthawk-was\/\" >Lockheed F-117 Night Hawk is a later Cold War icon<\/a><\/span> and is famous for being one of the most closely guarded black box projects. It was the first operational stealth, or more accurately, low-observable, combat aircraft. The F-117 was a harbinger of things to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The F-117 never went away and continues to learn new tricks and is to be sustained until 2034 as a stealthy aggressor aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,412,240,4559,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-military","category-north-america","category-stealth-bomber","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=448709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448711,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448709\/revisions\/448711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=448709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=448709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=448709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}