Black Bracket Wall Art

Black Bracket — 2 museum-grade prints in this palette. Developed under Lockheed's Have Blue and Senior Trend programmes, the F-117A became the world's first operational low-observable combat aircraft — maiden flight 1981, operational from 1983, public reveal 1988. Despite the popular "Stealth Fighter" nickname and its F-series designation, the Nighthawk was strictly an attack platform: subsonic, two internal weapon bays, and a radar cross-section shrunk by faceted shaping rather than curved LO surfaces. The F-35A is the conventional takeoff and landing variant of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter — single Pratt & Whitney F135 engine, internal weapons bays in clean configuration, and the AN/APG-81 AESA radar at the heart of a sensor-fusion cockpit. Hill AFB's 388th Fighter Wing became the USAF's first operational F-35A wing, with the 34th Fighter Squadron — the Rude Rams — among the lead units flying the type from northern Utah.

Updated 14 Jun 2026