F-117 Pilot: Nighthawk combat debut in Panama and becoming a squadron boss

In this second article on Greg Feest’s F-117 career, which appeared in the January 2018 issue of Aviation News, among the topics he covered were flying a combat mission to Panama and becoming a squadron commander

In last month’s article, I related the story of my first night’s mission during Operation Desert Storm in 1991.  However, this was not the first time I had flown combat in the Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk.  On December 19, 1989 I was the F-117 Mission Lead for Operation Just Cause, the first time the stealth fighter saw action. 

In

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