Comment by mshockwave

Highly recommend reading "Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed", written by the father of F117, Ben Rich. It detailed the history of creating NightHawk as well as other famous aircrafts like U-2 and BlackBird(A-12 / SR-71). Too bad the book couldn't cover F-22 Raptor as it hasn't been declassified at the time of writing (1996)