What did it take to move a legend?
From restoration and demilitarization to carefully loading it aboard a C-5M Super Galaxy, this is a behind-the-scenes look at the journey that brought the F-117 Nighthawk "Overachiever" to its permanent home at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.
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24 October 2003. Last commercial flight of the Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde. At 4:05 p.m. BST British Airways Concorde G-BOAG landed at Heathrow Airport, third in sequence with G-BOAE and G-BOAF after all three had made low passes over London.
This is your periodic reminder that when the Soviets didn't have an aircraft large enough to carry and drop their Buran prototype like NASA had done with Enterprise, they just added turbojets and made OK-GLI take off under its own power.