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Project Have Blue - Lockheed's First Stealth Fighter

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In the 1970s, classified under the codename Have Blue, U.S. aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin built a first-of-its-kind proof of concept demonstrator aircraft in the rather unique shape of a diamond. It would be the very first fixed-wing craft designed with the express purpose of avoiding detection by radar. Actual flight dynamics were of secondary concern. In fact, before the Have Blue project had its first test flight, engineers were doubtful the demonstrator could even fly, nicknaming the prototype “the Hopeless diamond” - a play-on-words referencing the famed Hope Diamond. Even though the project would go on to be developed into the first-ever stealth fighter, the F-117A Nighthawk, the engineers wouldn’t be entirely wrong… Two Have Blues were built, but neither survived...

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@spiff8862
@spiff8862 4 жыл бұрын
Back in 1985, I lived in Van Nuys, just west of Lockheed in Burbank. Every Friday night around midnight, a C-5 Galaxy would fly over my house as it made its final approach into Lockheed. Around 2:30 am you could hear it take off. You couldn't mistake its distinctive droning sound of the engines. At the time people who lived out in the Palmdale area (where Lockheed had its testing facilities) would report of seeing or hearing strange aircraft flying over in the dead of night. A friend of mine who lived near Lockheed in Burbank said that all the streets surrounding the airport were closed off to traffic and you couldn't get anywhere near the airport before the C-5 landed or took off. We knew something was up. Not until the Nighthawk came out, did we put two and two together and realized that they were flying in parts and flying out nearly completed jets. Even though you didnt know what was going on, you knew something was...
@thudthud5423
@thudthud5423 4 жыл бұрын
That reminds me of the "Aurora" sightings I used to hear about.
@mariannwatt2678
@mariannwatt2678 2 жыл бұрын
The building is now gone it was b6 360 the airport was blacked out until c5 depart feds every where
@novat9731
@novat9731 4 жыл бұрын
Wait what? Machinists went on strike, so the managers just did it themselves? Actual competent managers?
@frankpinmtl
@frankpinmtl 4 жыл бұрын
Boeing take note...
@EnFuegoDuo
@EnFuegoDuo 4 жыл бұрын
All of the good managers, the ones that actually had to be competent at the work they managed, disappeared once someones skin color or their gender took precedence over their competence levels.
@Thermalburn
@Thermalburn 4 жыл бұрын
for real. my managers would have just had a panic attack not accomplished anything...
@user-kv5lq9xm8c
@user-kv5lq9xm8c 4 жыл бұрын
In defense contracting, the managers are usually techs or machinists, etc. who were promoted due to experience. Even then it doesn’t guarantee them being competent so this team was legitimately badass for that
@troncrash7912
@troncrash7912 4 жыл бұрын
"Fine, ill do it myself"
@usurpist7032
@usurpist7032 4 жыл бұрын
Dark docs dedicated to aircraft? Oh hell yes. Thank you.
@right2barearms718
@right2barearms718 4 жыл бұрын
bsharrard // back to third grade at your Madrassa, bonehead
@quisqueyanguy120
@quisqueyanguy120 4 жыл бұрын
@bsharrard LMAO, they won't use stealth aircraft to bomb local insurgency, that's what drones are for.
@blacksupra001
@blacksupra001 4 жыл бұрын
Effn-A
@hyenasfan2668
@hyenasfan2668 4 жыл бұрын
Oscill8 check out their other channel, Dark Skies!
@usurpist7032
@usurpist7032 4 жыл бұрын
@opugilist hell, that's the least I could do lol!
@davidgretlein9384
@davidgretlein9384 3 жыл бұрын
Fun fact - from Kelly Johnson’s book, titled the same “Have Blue”, they knew they were on to something with the coatings when Kodak developed the aerial photog equipment. Story goes Kodak wanted to snap a picture of the plane with their ultrasonic range finder camera (autofocus), simply would not focus.
@chetkasper5680
@chetkasper5680 3 жыл бұрын
With my Kodak camera I took a picture of my wife standing in front of one in the museum in Dayton, and when the film was developed, all I could see was my wife and maybe a faint outline of the F-117 behind her. The flash was diffused enough not to capture the plane, even though I'm sure all the 'secret stuff' was removed before it was displayed.
@GOWvMatchstick
@GOWvMatchstick 4 жыл бұрын
“Hey guys” “Yeah joe?” “I saw Star Wars yesterday and something stuck with me” “You getting a cinnamon roll haircut?” “No Dave the ships, we’re making the ships”
@GOWvMatchstick
@GOWvMatchstick 3 жыл бұрын
@@spacemaniii1460 hahahaha
@h.cedric8157
@h.cedric8157 4 жыл бұрын
Up next from *Dark Skies:* Stealth Blackhawk: The helicopter that helped kill Bin Laden
@thudthud5423
@thudthud5423 4 жыл бұрын
That would be nice, but I think details on that aircraft are still pretty classified, I believe. We only know it exists because the helicopter that crashed landed on a wall with its tail hanging over one side where the Seal Team couldn't burn it with incendiaries. I remember seeing the first photo of it (from Pakistani sources) when it was described as a "Blackhawk helicopter". I remember looking at the tail rotor and thinking: "Uh...that's not a Blackhawk. That's got to be some sort of classified helicopter."
@h.cedric8157
@h.cedric8157 4 жыл бұрын
@@thudthud5423 it still would make for a great content though, but what astounds me to this day is the speed of how a totally new helicopter was made in so short a time. As an enthusiast, I know how long ittakes for an airframe to mature from pure design concept, to an operational vehicle. What we dont know is if this heli was already built up or already in development for a long long period of time and OP Neptune Spear was the opportunity the airframe was waiting for.
@h.cedric8157
@h.cedric8157 4 жыл бұрын
​@oneviwatara *Whatever troll*
@h.cedric8157
@h.cedric8157 4 жыл бұрын
@oneviwatara *You're*
@NeutronSplitter
@NeutronSplitter 4 жыл бұрын
@oneviwatara You're*
@dante001ish
@dante001ish 4 жыл бұрын
Dark Docs sent me here....Sure he said there would be ice cream
@xXm619killaxX
@xXm619killaxX 4 жыл бұрын
I heard pizza
@ianmacfarlane1241
@ianmacfarlane1241 4 жыл бұрын
I was told I'd be safe to leave my house.
@ben-jam-in6941
@ben-jam-in6941 4 жыл бұрын
Beer was what I was told.
@ABrit-bt6ce
@ABrit-bt6ce 4 жыл бұрын
Blackjack and Hookers.
@suluturnip
@suluturnip 4 жыл бұрын
Two scoops????
@teddy.d174
@teddy.d174 4 жыл бұрын
Kelly Johnson.....aviation pioneer and godfather of the SR-71 Blackbird, the baddest aircraft ever made (in my opinion).
@tysoncott7402
@tysoncott7402 4 жыл бұрын
No, the F-15 eagle/strike eagle owns that spot.
@rifleshooterchannel208
@rifleshooterchannel208 4 жыл бұрын
Tyson Cott Convair Super Hustler
@thudthud5423
@thudthud5423 4 жыл бұрын
@@tysoncott7402 Flying fast and high is cool, but facing the enemy head on and destroying just about every opponent you face and flying home every time to tell the tale is a lot cooler.
@nadtz
@nadtz 4 жыл бұрын
I share that opinion. Fighters might get all the love but the Blackbird is just a thing of beauty in my eyes.
@right2barearms718
@right2barearms718 4 жыл бұрын
badtz maru // I’m with you badtz. It’s the “Habu” first in my book. I was excited every time I saw one taxi out, take off, and come home again. They had the three hangers about fifty yard to the left of our end of the flight line at a place near the South China Sea from 1967-1974. They hadn’t even acknowledged its exsistance in 67. The only one I know we lost was a crash and burn landing one night on the runway about ten or so ..the pilot made it out and we saw him heading perpendicular out across the grass. I was an aviation electronics guy out on the launch assist truck for some of our tanker takeoffs that night and we headed in his direction but got cutoff by several Marine jeeps while another truck from their area shot out to pick him up. The base fire trucks were already only a few hundred yards from the fire site. We turned back to “our” area and watched it burn out. There must have been substantial magnesium involved from the way it burned. Our six tankers took off a little after 11 on the other runway and by then there must have been fifty from their detachment sweeping and collecting anything that didn’t burn after the trucks had hosed things down. I know the pilots weren’t military and I know theirs was the only part of the flight line that had marines guarding it. And that included the tactical nuke bunkers on the far side of the line with the fighter sad.
@patrickstewart3446
@patrickstewart3446 3 жыл бұрын
“Lockheed and Northrop raced against each other...” You could say that for most US combat planes of the last 30 years. :)
@leviquintero1000
@leviquintero1000 4 жыл бұрын
"At a low cost" *Laughs in F-35 Program!*
@777jones
@777jones 3 жыл бұрын
The F-35 was the opposite in every way of this program. It was designed by lobbyists on K street, specifically in order to cost as much as possible, enhancing the career of the lobbyists.
@tacticalmattfoley
@tacticalmattfoley 3 жыл бұрын
@@777jones it’s been a disaster.
@Apollo-tj1vm
@Apollo-tj1vm 3 жыл бұрын
F-35 wasn't a complete failure. Onboard electronics are hightly advance compare to older aircraft. RCS is also lower than F-22. Sure it's shit at dogfight, but then you wouldn't need to be in one if the enemy can't see you. I wonder what the new performance will be for the F-35 when they start changing into the XA100 engine.
@theundead1600
@theundead1600 3 жыл бұрын
Skunk works brought the two test beds in at 34million. For 2 planes.
@Apollo-tj1vm
@Apollo-tj1vm 3 жыл бұрын
@@theundead1600 R&D cost money too
@billirvin9057
@billirvin9057 4 жыл бұрын
I was assigned to the "Senior Trend" project from 1986-89, at Tonopah Test Range. I was presented an American flag that was flown aboard the first daylight flight in Nov 1988, at my retirement in 1989. Awesome video!
@billirvin9057
@billirvin9057 4 жыл бұрын
@@globaltrend3739 To get into the operations area, you had to have a l restricted area badge with your picture, do a hand scan, and have a personal ID number. To get into the area I worked in (communications/computer center), another hand scan (for fingerprints) to ensure you were allowed in that building AND a digital code to enter our work center. I thought the hand scans worked really well and looking back at the technology we had in the late 1980's, pretty cool, too.
@Kradle
@Kradle 4 жыл бұрын
I got to witness a B-2 fly over my house a while back. It sounded and looked like nothing I've ever heard or seen before. It rumbled like no other engine I've ever heard. Seeing the thing in person really cements with you just how advanced the technology really is.
@roblockhart6104
@roblockhart6104 4 жыл бұрын
In 1962, Boeing built a stealth model concept, the '853 Quiet Bird', which achieved a RCS lower than anything that preceded it. They manage to do this without supercomputers or Ufimtsev mathematical equations.
@mypl510
@mypl510 4 жыл бұрын
I remember when one crashed in the Kern River and it was reported as a regular Military Crash. Months later I met and Air Force officer who told me it was really an F-117 and even gave me a pin of a Stealth Fighter! Wish I still had the pin! Cool new channel, looking forward to what else comes out!
@davidsilk3764
@davidsilk3764 4 жыл бұрын
When I was really little, there was an airshow across from my aunts house in Maryland, an F117 crashed at the show into a house not far from my aunt's. Black SUVs and Suits were everywhere!
@keagannelka5137
@keagannelka5137 4 жыл бұрын
@@davidsilk3764 thats kinda scary
@duncanmcgee13
@duncanmcgee13 4 жыл бұрын
@BC Bob you seem like the type to call everything fake because you didnt get to experience it. Jealousy leads down a very dark road.
@imtoooldforthisstuff
@imtoooldforthisstuff 4 жыл бұрын
I remember that. I lived in Porterville at the time and the road from California Hot Springs over to Lake Isabella was closed for several weeks. CalFire said it was because of a brush fire that happened around that same time, but the fire was closer to Ponderosa than the road over that pass.
@GregHakes
@GregHakes 4 жыл бұрын
Only 1 F117 was lost during that war and that was due to Pilot error. No F117 crashed into any river, that is a fairy tale.
@BradiKal61
@BradiKal61 3 жыл бұрын
I remember playing the Stealth Fighter video game on my dad's PC. The graphics of the plane were based on a concept drawing, but after actual images of the real plane were released you could swap the graphics files so your 117 looked correct.
@jwdickinson643
@jwdickinson643 4 жыл бұрын
in its early days, the Nighthawk was also know as The Wobbly Goblin.
@jwdickinson643
@jwdickinson643 4 жыл бұрын
Daniel Rodriguez I believe (and know) you are incorrect. The F-117 program originally started as the Have Blue technology development program where two smaller test aircraft were built for flight test. Both articles were lost due to software bugs in the flight control avionic. Later, under the production contract with Lockheed, two more full size F-117’s were lost (crashed) also due to additional yet undetected s/w bugs. The moniker “Wobbly Goblin” refers to the inherent aerodynamically unstable stealth design, aka “the hopeless diamond”. The F-117 IS aerodynamically unstable requiring redundant on-board flight control computers to effectively manage the aircraft. As a former Skunk Works and Lockheed Martin employee who has worked BOTH programs, I learned all this on the job. The “Shadow Hawk” to which you refer may be a reference to call sign or an aircraft pseudoname in a video game like Call of Duty or something.
@jwdickinson643
@jwdickinson643 4 жыл бұрын
gaba chi not directly....I was a bean counter (financial analyst)
@williamduffy1227
@williamduffy1227 3 жыл бұрын
It was nicknamed the 'Wobblin' Goblin'.
@daltonv5206
@daltonv5206 3 жыл бұрын
@@williamduffy1227 that was my handle in Jane's ww2 fighters 🤣
@williamduffy1227
@williamduffy1227 3 жыл бұрын
@@daltonv5206 😅😝
@jeffmeyer9587
@jeffmeyer9587 4 жыл бұрын
I don't know if it's still visible, but in the early satellite pics of Area 51, you could see the scorch mark of the first Have blue crash near the end of the runway.
@orangecat3021
@orangecat3021 4 жыл бұрын
Jeff meyer link?
@jeffmeyer9587
@jeffmeyer9587 4 жыл бұрын
@@orangecat3021 I'm sorry, I have no link, I saw it on a documentary on stealth , years ago. I'll look around and see if i can find it. if I do I will send it to you. The documentary era was around late 90s early 2000s if you want to look.
@lawfulldick4158
@lawfulldick4158 4 жыл бұрын
Jeff meyer: scorch marks? And the supposed video of the crash at 8:31 with huge flames, B.S. Out of gas, at most fumes in empty tank will give explosive result but not flames as shown. Don't let them blow smoke up your keyster by believing every video you see.
@terrain7879
@terrain7879 3 жыл бұрын
@@lawfulldick4158 Chill he just made a small mistake, you're acting like it's the middle of the Cold War and he just launched a nuke against the U.S.S.R.
@lawfulldick4158
@lawfulldick4158 3 жыл бұрын
@@terrain7879 Just pointing out the obvious to the ignorant (ignorant - as in believing every insane babbling lie the a'hole in Washington oinks daily). As an outside observer, it is hugely interesting (entertaining) to see the Ununited Staes of America tear itself to pieces , the shortest empire to have existed, history at Mach 3.
@Bramon83
@Bramon83 2 жыл бұрын
Kelly Johnsons Lockheed was such an amazing powerhouse of engineering. Kudos boys
@josephsmith2561
@josephsmith2561 4 жыл бұрын
This plane flew over our garage low and slow in the 70s while classified near Chicago. Nobody believed me when I saw the black triangle. Flight tests were recorded in that area back then.
@DoomFoxofDeath
@DoomFoxofDeath 4 жыл бұрын
The stealth capabilities of the F-117 are so effective that players of Ace Combat 7 are unable to see it in the aircraft menu. Although some Yugoslavian players claim to have seen it.
@majorborngusfluunduch8694
@majorborngusfluunduch8694 2 жыл бұрын
This comment hurts my soul. XD
@Protonneutronelectron
@Protonneutronelectron 4 жыл бұрын
Yugoslavia : Sorry we didn’t know it was invisible .
@luckyhazard156
@luckyhazard156 4 жыл бұрын
Neutron one time long time insult.
@wino0000006
@wino0000006 4 жыл бұрын
Oh Yugoslavia did know it was stealth. But it didn't matter since they had obtained the exact flight plan of that F117. They simply knew when and where it was going to fly over. Without that super preperations they wouldn't have achieved the only time the F117 was shot down.
@quisqueyanguy120
@quisqueyanguy120 4 жыл бұрын
Stealth doesn't mean invulnerability. Also you are underestimating the expertise of the serbian air defense forces. Serbia is not Irak.
@quisqueyanguy120
@quisqueyanguy120 4 жыл бұрын
@@wino0000006 This.
@xxZerosumxx
@xxZerosumxx 4 жыл бұрын
@@wino0000006 How did they obtain the info?
@xenophagia
@xenophagia 4 жыл бұрын
Congrats on the new channel. Ive been here since the early days of Dark5. Its been awesome to see your growth and evolution into one of the best set of channels on YT. Thanks for your hard work.
@nicholaswouters1203
@nicholaswouters1203 4 жыл бұрын
The first stealth aircraft actually arrived in world war two.. not by design, but due to shortages of metal a few planes were build using wood, with a side effect that the planes were radar invisible :)
@williamtell5365
@williamtell5365 2 жыл бұрын
These partial failures so often have such important roles. The F117 birthed the B2, the F111 bithed the F14 ... sometimes we need to see the learning achieved in these aircraft play out in subsequent aircraft.
@ekoden
@ekoden 4 жыл бұрын
Here from Dark Docs. Great content as always. As an aerospace aficionado, I feel like you guys made this new channel just for me. Can't wait to see what stories come out of this! Here's to expanding and good luck!
@naysaykiller928
@naysaykiller928 4 жыл бұрын
I'M SO EXCITED FOR THIS CHANNEL!!!!!!!!! Dark Docs is already one of my favorites, and as an avgeek, this is all I could ever ask for!! I feel like this was made just for me!!
@timandshannon03
@timandshannon03 4 жыл бұрын
The F-4 Phantom proved that if you could put enough thrust into it, you can make a brick fly.... The F-117 proved that if you put enough computers in it, you can make any shape fly.
@M0rmagil
@M0rmagil 3 жыл бұрын
Proud to have played a small part of this. 👍🏻🇺🇸❤️
@dylanwhite3383
@dylanwhite3383 4 жыл бұрын
The f-117 night hawk is one of my favorite jets
@nitehawk86
@nitehawk86 4 жыл бұрын
Mine too :)
@Angel.Feather7
@Angel.Feather7 4 жыл бұрын
It's my absolute favourite.
@KennethKustren-lr6tg
@KennethKustren-lr6tg 4 жыл бұрын
Ahhh ..so your spelling error ... Nighthawk ... was an error.
@Diamond_Tiara
@Diamond_Tiara 3 жыл бұрын
yes, it's really the peak brutalism design, too bad it was actually garbage.
@dylanwhite3383
@dylanwhite3383 3 жыл бұрын
@@Diamond_Tiara yea too slow and not enough weapons
@seXXXpac
@seXXXpac 4 жыл бұрын
This was a great video! Bonus point for keeping the narration "Dark".
@razvanmazilu6284
@razvanmazilu6284 4 жыл бұрын
Too each his own; I found the narration to be distracting to the point it got annoying. 🤷🏻‍♂️
@youknowwho257
@youknowwho257 4 жыл бұрын
@@razvanmazilu6284 Also, sometimes the dude got saliva in he's mouth and he stops to suck in, that's clear at some points, and sometimes he forgets to BREATHE and talks very fast at the end of the sentences, he even bends hes tongue and you can feel it on the pronunciation. Very, very annoying narration.
@justonemori
@justonemori 3 жыл бұрын
3:44 is Tacit Blue, a subsequent developmental craft. It's currently on display at the National Museum of the USAF in Dayton, Ohio.
@cutchdoggw1776
@cutchdoggw1776 3 жыл бұрын
I have aways been proud to have played apart in this airplane’s existence and success! No matter how small!!
@jorgevasquez6966
@jorgevasquez6966 4 жыл бұрын
Love dark docs and dark skies
@jvh1309
@jvh1309 4 жыл бұрын
What about dark 5
@endutubecensorship
@endutubecensorship 4 жыл бұрын
6:40 Presenting: Starfox for Nintendo 64
@jl.7739
@jl.7739 4 жыл бұрын
R starfox First Mission music starts playing in my head.
@andrewlaco1776
@andrewlaco1776 4 жыл бұрын
Goddamn Slippy should've never been their test pilot.
@thefoxygamer1536
@thefoxygamer1536 3 жыл бұрын
It looks like a fancy paper airplane
@atomictraveller
@atomictraveller 4 жыл бұрын
okay HERE'S ONE - white triangular aircraft about 20-25 feet long. about a dozen of them parked in the desert west of ajo, AZ (goldwater test range) visible on google maps c. 2009. they're wider, maybe a 40 deg. point, parked individually in bunkers or on dirt landing strips. never seen anyone id these
@AtheistOrphan
@AtheistOrphan 4 жыл бұрын
atomictraveller - I will take a look at that. Thank you.
@EtzEchad
@EtzEchad 3 жыл бұрын
I heard a story about the first radar tests on the Have Blue model mounted on the test stand. The radar operator said that the radar wasn't working because he wasn't picking up anything, then said "there it is!" But, when they looked at the model with a telescope, they found that a bird had landed on it. The STILL weren't picking up the aircraft - only the bird. :)
@sprtplt
@sprtplt 2 жыл бұрын
B.S. It WAS detectable, and was shot down easily.
@EtzEchad
@EtzEchad 2 жыл бұрын
@@sprtplt The model was never shot down, because it never flew. You have a very high opinion to knowledge ratio.
@Freesoler01
@Freesoler01 10 ай бұрын
@@sprtplt The Have Blue XST was never shot down. It was purely an experimental research aircraft. You are talking about the F-117 Nighthawk. While both planes were built by the Skunkworks, they are distinct aircraft, with a number of differences, including size, and shape. The Have Blue was smaller, with a higher angle of sweep on the wings, a different tail configuration, and a differently shaped nose and canopy. Have Blue also had no weapons or sensors, as it was purely a demonstrator.
@mattfoss1652
@mattfoss1652 4 жыл бұрын
You guys do fabulous documentaries. Any thoughts on doing one on the Aurora/Astra hypersonic spy plane that supposedly flew in the early nineties?
@YourMom-lb3mt
@YourMom-lb3mt 4 жыл бұрын
damn that looks waay ahead of its time
@jspark7359
@jspark7359 Жыл бұрын
My father, Bill Park, was given the D-ring from his ejection from Have Blue. I still have it!
@chriswilliams2652
@chriswilliams2652 4 жыл бұрын
Test pilots have titanium balls no doubt! Kudos Gentlemen 👍
@hckyplyr9285
@hckyplyr9285 4 жыл бұрын
I have to pick a few nits: Lockheed Martin did not exist until 1995. At the time of the XST effort it was just Lockheed. Douglas ceased to exist in 1967 as a separate company, as it was acquired by McDonnell Aircraft Company. McDonnell Douglas resulted from the merger. Northrop Grumman did not exist until 1994. Prior to that it was just Northrop.
@kimbalaystrattick4977
@kimbalaystrattick4977 4 жыл бұрын
Great "Doc-ette". Thank you Dark 5 for adding on another wing to your channel. (pun unintended until i realized it was a good pun) Your channel's are the best!
@zachogdahl210
@zachogdahl210 4 жыл бұрын
as an aerospace nerd i love that you did this! your narration is what keeps me coming back to these channels
@jaytaylor9232
@jaytaylor9232 3 жыл бұрын
The frequency of adverts on this channel are are major factor in me avoiding this channel or bailing out after the third ad.
@lordsidos
@lordsidos 4 жыл бұрын
This is an excellent video, showcasing some really great footage! I recently just finished the book Skunk Works by Ben Rich and I recommend everybody read it, it's such a good book that describes all of this plus so much more!!
@Silver_o
@Silver_o 4 жыл бұрын
I'm currently reading that book. About 80 more pages to go.
@TheMadhatter2561
@TheMadhatter2561 4 жыл бұрын
You didn’t mention that the F-117a was actually first used in Operation Just Cause in Panama predating the Gulf War
@aaronisgrate
@aaronisgrate 4 жыл бұрын
He also didn't mention the F117 used a companion aircraft that's still classified.
@gooner72
@gooner72 3 жыл бұрын
@@aaronisgrate you are correct my friend.... it'll be very interesting to find out what it was. Maybe the F-22 or something equally phenomenal.
@aaronisgrate
@aaronisgrate 3 жыл бұрын
@@gooner72 might be F23 related actually. Like but before the yf23s time.
@johnl9894
@johnl9894 3 жыл бұрын
@@aaronisgrate Elaborate?
@aaronisgrate
@aaronisgrate 3 жыл бұрын
@@johnl9894 on what? Search F117 companion and do some digging. Some think the companion was one of the early losing competitors to the F117 that continued on being developed. Some think it's an early bigger YF23 type plane. The rumor is they went in ahead of the F117 and lit up enemy air defenses and lazed targets for the approaching f117s
@deanpratley125
@deanpratley125 4 жыл бұрын
I must say, that of all the documetary announcers I have heard. You are bye far the best. I like your style, tone and construction of speach. I t is refreshing. Plus your info is very interesting.
@ixm2unvrz
@ixm2unvrz 4 жыл бұрын
The F-117 is still one of my favourite and in my personal opinion the coolest military aircraft ever flown. Yes it was shot down in Yugoslavia and in Iraq iirc, but it's still one of the coolest aircraft with the XB-70 Valkyrie and the F-15C Eagle as well as the F-14 Tomcat siting in 2nd, 3rd and 4th
@roberthill3207
@roberthill3207 4 жыл бұрын
New channel couldn't sub quit enough. Thumbs up stay awesome aviation history buffs/nerds.
@pleonic
@pleonic 4 жыл бұрын
Well, here's another channel I'll be addicted to.
@dawadsonsurong834
@dawadsonsurong834 3 жыл бұрын
This channel's contents are so good that even a guy from one of the most remote area in India like me got hooked quite sometime now.Thank you I appreciate this.
@CMFL77
@CMFL77 4 жыл бұрын
This channel is pretty much perfection for my preferences. If I had to pick a favorite topic / medium it would definitely be dark aviation related stories. You are really killing it on the channels lately D5!
@gaveintothedarkness
@gaveintothedarkness 4 жыл бұрын
5:45 Play spot the manager. Everyone is working had and reviewing technical drawings. Guy at 5:45 inspecting his hat.
@blackcountryme
@blackcountryme 3 жыл бұрын
Hats lives matter
@Capt_JD
@Capt_JD 4 жыл бұрын
When I m trying to learn something ads are like my friends trying to stop me.
@JN-vp1mx
@JN-vp1mx 4 жыл бұрын
Dark5, Dark Docs, Dark Skies - the best channels on the tube. Absolutely amazing content. Thank you for all you do
@johnnyyen4910
@johnnyyen4910 4 жыл бұрын
Don't forget dark footage and dark photos as well!
@cdwinpc
@cdwinpc Жыл бұрын
Two F-117's were photographed flying just last weekend on 23 April 2023 in the Sierra Nevada mountains. They may be retired, but they are busy in their second careers.
@maverick2678
@maverick2678 4 жыл бұрын
The Time when they got all their works in film now everything is a secret
@TheTeehee11111
@TheTeehee11111 4 жыл бұрын
I heard they're tring to turn them into drones now. It would be a good explanation as to why they're still seen flying around.
@midgetman4206
@midgetman4206 4 жыл бұрын
why are the Black projects always so heckin cool? those are pretty much everyone's favorite aircraft, for me it's between this one and the SR-71
@lastpally
@lastpally 4 жыл бұрын
Bc of just how incredible everything involved is. The secrecy, engineering, technology, purpose, missions (if involved) and of course the designs. These aircrafts scream classified and just “shadow” government. Hell most of these aircraft had Area 51 involved lol. It’s real life x-files.
@509Gman
@509Gman 4 жыл бұрын
The UFO trend in the 80s was “black triangles”. In the late 90s/early 2000s it was “lights” making maneuvers no aircraft could possibly perform. I was at an airshow ten years ago where an F22 went from parallel with the runway to straight vertical climb in the blink of an eye, and I thought “that’s what it was!”
@fridaycaliforniaa236
@fridaycaliforniaa236 4 жыл бұрын
US : our plane is invisible Yugoslavia : hold my TV antenna...
@kyle857
@kyle857 4 жыл бұрын
Yugoslavia: "I don't feel so good..." Breaks up.
@nosatisfaction2278
@nosatisfaction2278 4 жыл бұрын
Awesome Btw the YF-23 should of also been built to take over the role of F-117.
@Diamond_Tiara
@Diamond_Tiara 3 жыл бұрын
more of an interceptor than a ground attack/mini-bomber, which is the role of the BRRT anyways.
@erinpitt580
@erinpitt580 4 жыл бұрын
in beginning of this video, ABSOLUTE PERFECT speed of speach! man.. I watched this entire video this time.
@SeraphimSiN
@SeraphimSiN 4 жыл бұрын
You do good work man. Thank you. 👍
@DarkOperationman
@DarkOperationman 4 жыл бұрын
Narrator is taking too fast. I have to play at .75 to listen clearly.
@loveunderlaw
@loveunderlaw 4 жыл бұрын
WE TALK THAT WAY IN NEW YORK ALL OF THE TIME😂
@Luke..luke..luke..
@Luke..luke..luke.. 4 жыл бұрын
You need to keep pumping this content out mate. With YOU as the narrator. Your voice makes this and why would you want to give money to another person anyhow!?!? ♥️♥️
@Bearak_
@Bearak_ 4 жыл бұрын
PROBABLYBECAUSEHETALKSTOOFAST. ANDUSESUNNATURALPAUSES. ANDTHATMAKESHIMDIFFICULTTOLISTENTO.
@Luke..luke..luke..
@Luke..luke..luke.. 4 жыл бұрын
@@Bearak_ lol
@SinisterCity
@SinisterCity 3 жыл бұрын
Always loved anything SkunkWorks touched.
@jacobcastro1885
@jacobcastro1885 4 жыл бұрын
Awesome. I didn't know this much footage of Have Blue existed.
@ljessecusterl
@ljessecusterl 4 жыл бұрын
One was spotted last month flying through the Star Wars Canyon.
@chekaschmeka4283
@chekaschmeka4283 4 жыл бұрын
They are using some in Red hat exercises to simulate stealth drones from China, Iran and others.
@CallMiLito
@CallMiLito 4 жыл бұрын
I love this stuff!
@thecandyman9308
@thecandyman9308 4 жыл бұрын
Still remember being in about 2nd grade in '88 and seeing the headline on a newspaper at the grocery store confirming "undetectable stealth aircraft exist" or something to that effect w/ my mom, thinking it was cool, then walking down the strip mall to the Blockbuster to look at movies about fighter jets.
@sprtplt
@sprtplt 2 жыл бұрын
Even a third-tier adversary detected it and shot down.
@AquaticPro-xu5lx
@AquaticPro-xu5lx 4 жыл бұрын
Love your content. Excited for the new channel
@MBSill
@MBSill 4 жыл бұрын
This officially seals the deal. I now have absolutely no reason to subscribe to any channels outside of the "Dark 5 Family"! Thanks for all the hard work you folks put in every day. These new channels are freakin' awesome! Rock on!
@johnnyyen4910
@johnnyyen4910 4 жыл бұрын
Dark 5 Universe: Dark 5 Dark Docs Dark Footage Dark Photos Dark Skies
@hemlocksalad5383
@hemlocksalad5383 4 жыл бұрын
this is really cool i love planes maybe do a video on the yf-22 vs the yf-23 contract for the f22
@patelivid1637
@patelivid1637 4 жыл бұрын
We have a secret squadron of upgraded YF-23s 🤫
@xxZerosumxx
@xxZerosumxx 4 жыл бұрын
@@patelivid1637 Oh wow! Is this true? I liked the YF-23 over the YF-22.
@Iskelderon
@Iskelderon 4 жыл бұрын
Absolutely loved Ben Rich's book Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed telling the voyage from the SR-71 to the B-2.
@gapratt4955
@gapratt4955 4 жыл бұрын
I suggest you find Kelly Johnson's biography. Fantastic read!
@right2barearms718
@right2barearms718 4 жыл бұрын
KJ...an amazing mind set free by an amazing time.. thank God the “cake eater suits” didn’t stuff him into a cubicle somewhere..wonder if he ever got a presidential medal of some sort.. SiFi to runway in amazingly unheard of time. I was lucky and honored to work with some of his finished masterpieces in the real world.
@TheOnePhillip
@TheOnePhillip 3 жыл бұрын
During ww2 the horten brothers developed an all wing jet aircraft that looks amazingly like the stealth bomber. After the war the US invented the "flying wing" but was unstable in flight. It took computers to stabilize the stealth bomber and its companion the stealth fighter. 40 plus years to wait but we did it.
@malcolmhardwick4258
@malcolmhardwick4258 4 жыл бұрын
I'm here !!
@DarthHippygaming
@DarthHippygaming 4 жыл бұрын
Ah my first and latest nerd passions together, why yes I will please and thank you.
@ZedNinetySix_
@ZedNinetySix_ 4 жыл бұрын
Awesome new channel!!! We Salute you, Dark! One of the greatest KZfaqrs of all time
@joeberentsen
@joeberentsen 4 жыл бұрын
Very cool music and atmosphere
@Mutlap
@Mutlap 4 жыл бұрын
2019 test being used to develop other planes, a testbed for future planes I'm sure
@coolfight2229
@coolfight2229 3 жыл бұрын
"And one was spotted flying in January of 2019" That defeats the whole purpose the plane😂😂
@pigeonpoo1823
@pigeonpoo1823 2 жыл бұрын
Wasn't that Clarkson and May?
@Progamer-jk6lm
@Progamer-jk6lm 2 жыл бұрын
The aircraft that started a series of stealth aircraft
@ianmacfarlane1241
@ianmacfarlane1241 4 жыл бұрын
Great start - knowing the quality of the other 'Datk' channels I see an excellent future for this channel.
@85MasterV
@85MasterV 4 жыл бұрын
"Have Blue" pronounced 'hay-vv blue'.. don't ask me how I know.
@iridiumcaptain
@iridiumcaptain 4 жыл бұрын
You correct.
@robhudson5533
@robhudson5533 4 жыл бұрын
How do you know?
@gapratt4955
@gapratt4955 4 жыл бұрын
​@@robhudson5533 It is a play on an acronym.
@right2barearms718
@right2barearms718 4 жыл бұрын
Same reason I knew about Rivet Amber and Rivet Ball. Way back in the CW days. I think the coolest part of the Recon chain was that by the time any project was even talked about in the public domain, it’s replacement was already operational an flying..so it goes to this day I imagine. And ufo sitings make for a fascinating diversion and have since the fiftys. Go Air Force!
@robhudson5533
@robhudson5533 4 жыл бұрын
@@right2barearms718 Trust me, I know ALL ABOUT the Ball!!! I spent many cold nights out in Shemya!!! Hell in '69 the Ruskies (unofficially) shot down tail # 4137 lost all 19 souls on board! Never recovered any wreckage or bodies, all lost at sea! Guess we'll never know! 🤷‍♂️
@TobotronPrime
@TobotronPrime 4 жыл бұрын
this guy talks unnecessarily quickly, it’s stressful just listening - although good video!
@That_Awesome_Guy1
@That_Awesome_Guy1 4 жыл бұрын
You think he talks quickly?
@scott_hunts
@scott_hunts 4 жыл бұрын
He’s probably a southerner, they take forever to get out a sentence.
@sarge420
@sarge420 3 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed my 4yrs stationed at Area51 working on the F-117A. Good times.
@WRX7182
@WRX7182 4 жыл бұрын
I love that they are still flying now and then. Such a cool aircraft.
@unitedspacepirates9075
@unitedspacepirates9075 4 жыл бұрын
Lol, humans are funny.
@regalsteel7074
@regalsteel7074 3 жыл бұрын
The narrator sounds like he's being held at gunpoint, and the guy holding the gun to his head is ordering him to make his best Tim Pool impression of Tim Pool making a Ben Shapiro impression
@Penguin_of_Death
@Penguin_of_Death 4 жыл бұрын
2:01 'Grunman'..? GRUMMAN! You talk too fast to get your words out clearly
@jamstagerable
@jamstagerable 4 жыл бұрын
Set playback speed to .75x
@jamstagerable
@jamstagerable 4 жыл бұрын
He sped it up to fit within a 10 minute video
@nerradus
@nerradus 4 жыл бұрын
Would have more time, if there weren't so many Ads
@AridersLifeYT
@AridersLifeYT 4 жыл бұрын
@@nerradus i have addblock. have not seen an add in years
@runways_railways
@runways_railways 4 жыл бұрын
Your Dark channels are excellent. Many thanks
@b4nes
@b4nes 4 жыл бұрын
You keep making new channels, and I will keep subscribing to them. Big fan of your work, looong before narration made it even more awesome.
@aurorajones8481
@aurorajones8481 4 жыл бұрын
I need this tech to cover my motorcycle! LOL i seriously wrote to a company to secure some RAM paint but they never got back to me. Meh...
@endutubecensorship
@endutubecensorship 4 жыл бұрын
Aurora Jones: I've read the iron ferrite absorbs radar 😉
@bobthompson4319
@bobthompson4319 4 жыл бұрын
@@endutubecensorship your kinda right. But you have to use a magnetic field to get the iron and some other material to make the correct kind of shape. So you have to mix your paint with it and probably sprinkle it on top and then use a huge magnet to make the field while the paint drys.
@endutubecensorship
@endutubecensorship 4 жыл бұрын
bob thompson: icing sugar sifter 😃
@mred8002
@mred8002 4 жыл бұрын
Were you planning to paint yourself and your leathers with it, too, or just the bike?
@bobthompson4319
@bobthompson4319 4 жыл бұрын
@@endutubecensorship maybe lol. There a little bit about it in a video on the record cannon ball run. There's a guy who was the radar nerd and he talks about something that works but he had problems with it corroding and then not being stealthy
@aurorajones8481
@aurorajones8481 4 жыл бұрын
Please do the TRB3 Astra!!!
@nova1726
@nova1726 4 жыл бұрын
Aurora Jones thaaaaaat doesn't exist....
@Alienvisitor007
@Alienvisitor007 4 жыл бұрын
Thats what they all say
@nova1726
@nova1726 4 жыл бұрын
John Snow shut up conspiracy theorist
@nova1726
@nova1726 4 жыл бұрын
John Snow why would it still be classified if we already got a fuck ton of pictures to prove it's existence
@Alienvisitor007
@Alienvisitor007 4 жыл бұрын
They havent announced it to the public and its still top secret. If u ask the military about it they will tell you it doesnt exist.
@adrianmorrow9882
@adrianmorrow9882 3 жыл бұрын
Once again the narrator sacrifices his clarity of speech for speed. What we want is clarity rather than speed. Perhaps he was paid by the word? Many thanks.
@martinrps13
@martinrps13 3 жыл бұрын
Audio is just sped up....not his fault at all
@thekidfromcleveland3944
@thekidfromcleveland3944 4 жыл бұрын
Same quality as Dark Docs.......superb👌👍
@internetrules8522
@internetrules8522 4 жыл бұрын
I CANT TURN ON THE NOTIFICATION BELL WHAAAATTT. why does it say its made for kids?
@notebook2876
@notebook2876 4 жыл бұрын
That's where all the UFO sightings came from 🤔
@aerospacematt9147
@aerospacematt9147 3 жыл бұрын
An F-117 was spotted in January of 2019? NICE!
@cliffs1965
@cliffs1965 4 жыл бұрын
Just found out about the newest Dark channel. Wasn't disappointed.
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