Toxic Death F 117. F117 Nighthawk being tested to determine its radar cross section r/aviation Title: Page born: April 01 2002 F-117A #79-10781 "Scorpion 2", "Ship 2", "Toxic Death" Lot #1, FSD #2 (Performance) First Flight: 09/24/81 (Dave Ferguson) USAF Acceptance Flight: NONE Last Flight: 07/17/91 (191 Hours) Location: USAF Museum, WPAFB So that's the wild tale of the "Toxic Death" F-117, just another facet of the Nighthawk's wonderfully bizarre history, one that even included a Klingon Cloaking Device and that continues to intrigue to this very day
The toxic nature of these crystals meant that the maintenance crew had to be dressed in hazmat suits while blasting off the stealth coating Serial number 79-10781 as "Toxic Death.", Image Provided
This was contrary to the F-117 operations in the 1991 Gulf War where when Stinkbugs flew. The F-117N was a proposed carrier-capable variant of the F-117 [Album] Elsewhere in the career of the F-117, several further examples ended up returning to the gray scheme that had proven so effective in concealing the aircraft in the daytime during the early days of the program
F117 Nighthawk "TOXIC DEATH", ITALERI, 172. Once the coating was stripped, the maintenance crew proceeded to graffiti the side of the plane with "Toxic Death," a skull and crossbones, and "Ray Who?", the latter referring to a seemingly notorious. If a band of pirates were to have stolen an F-117 Nighthawk in an alternate dystopian reality, it probably would have looked exactly like YF-117A #781 does.
Hobbymaster HA5810 F117A Nighthawk USAF, "Toxic Death". The second Nighthawk produced was YF-117A 79-10781 and assigned to the 410th Flight Test Squadron "Baja Scorpions and named Scorpion 2 So that's the wild tale of the "Toxic Death" F-117, just another facet of the Nighthawk's wonderfully bizarre history, one that even included a Klingon Cloaking Device and that continues to intrigue to this very day