Now that I am retired I have more time to work on the PhotoArtFlight blog. These are images taken years ago with an early Digital Nikon D1X camera with a 400mm lens. The Nikon D1X had a cropped 1.5x sensor so the field of view would be ~600mm. I used to photograph a lot of Aviation images at airshows. Before Digital Cameras I would shoot 20 to 3o rolls of Ektachrome film so you were always reloading the camera with film. Digital made it easier to get the shots without reloading the camera and getting better and more images as the planes wizzed by. The F-117 Nighthawk was the world’s first operational stealth aircraft. The F117 subsonic twin-engine stealth attack aircraft developed by Lockheed’s secretive Skunk Works was not really a Fighter aircraft but more a ground attack aircraft. F-117s saw extensive combat use, from the incursion into Panama in 1989 through the Persian Gulf War of 1990–91 to the Iraqi War of 2003–11. It was fun to have the chance to photograph the F117 Stealth Fighter up close!