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I just finished this for a GB on another site. Largely 3-D printed, with the front 2/3 of the upper fuselage coming from the Hasegawa F-117 kit. Vacuformed canopy and landing gear are from a 1:72 F-14.

 

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59 minutes ago, Abandoned Project said:

Coool! But I am rather partial to a Whif. Any backstory?

 

I don't have a made up backstory, but in the 90's Lockheed was really pitching this idea to the US Navy. Here is a summary from Tacairnet:

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With the end of production of Nighthawks looming in the early 1990s, Lockheed Martin offered a new aircraft, based on the Nighthawk, to the Navy. It would be a subsonic stealth carrier-capable fighter/attack aircraft that would take the place of the result of the canceled Advanced/Fighter-Attack program of 1992.

 

The F-117N nicknamed the Seahawk, would retain the original angular and multifaceted fuselage of the Nighthawk but would fly with newer engines based off of General Electric’s F414 turbofan, originally slated to be used on the Mcdonnell Douglas A-12 Avenger II, an aircraft which would have replaced the A-6 Intruder but was canned by the Department of the Navy during development. The wings, which would be able to fold for storage aboard a carrier, would be given a 42-degree sweep, compared to the Nighthawk’s 50-degree. The new design called for stabilators and a “double-slotted” trailing edge, granting the aircraft greater handling characteristics than its land-based brother, a larger weapons bay capable of carrying air-to-air missiles. As expected, the undercarriage would be strengthened to handle the jarring effects of landing aboard carriers and a tailhook would be installed in the rear, housed in a recessed compartment to preserve stealth. Interestingly enough, Lockheed Martin submitted it also as an alternative to JAST. However, the Seahawk was doomed to fail right from the time Lockheed’s executives mentioned it to Department of Defense officials. It was marketed as a multi-role aircraft, able to accomplish a variety of missions rather than being relegated to just the attack role. However, after quick consideration, the DoD felt that investing in the hypothetical F-117N would take away vital funding from what would eventually become the Joint Strike Fighter program. The Navy’s requirements for the JAST/JSF aircraft were far more demanding than what the F-117N could live up to. Now, 20-something years later, we have the F-35C, the aircraft that the Navy would ultimately choose to fill the role that Lockheed had originally proposed with the Seahawk.

 

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