Boeing Spent $67,000,000 of Its Own Cash Building YF-118G Bird of Prey Stealth Aircraft. It Flew 38 Times on Landing Gear From a Beech King Air and an Ejection Seat From a Harrier.
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Boeing Spent $67,000,000 of Its Own Cash Building YF-118G Bird of Prey Stealth Aircraft. It Flew 38 Times on Landing Gear From a Beech King Air and an Ejection Seat From a Harrier.
The YF-118G Bird of Prey was a stealth jet built at Area 51 from spare parts: King Air landing gear, a Harrier ejection seat, a business-jet engine, and a store-bought clock. Boeing paid the $67 million itself, flew it 38 times from 1996 to 1999, and kept it secret until 2002. It hangs above the F-22 in Dayton.
How much money would a company put on a plane that never planned to sell? Boeing has the answer, 67 million dollars (about 58 million euros) out of its own box. With that money he secretly built the Bird of Prey, a small stealth plane (designed for radars hardly detect it) that made it ... Continue reading "Boeing spent 67 million dollars from his pocket on a secret stealth plane that flew 38 times in Area 51"
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