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--- TABLE DES MATIERES / CONTENTS --- Contents Acknowledgments Introduction A quiet place in the mountains Anatomy of a night predator Tough training and hard lessons Out of the black F-117A production Index + CG À & 31 65 83 94 96 Acknowledgments Thanks are, as always, due to my wife, Mary Pat, for her immense tolerance of the mental absences and unrepaired faucet washers that are the domestic price of authorship. Jim “Cookie Mon- ster” Goodall forgot to mention her chocolate-chip cookies in his acknowl- edgments, so I will do so here. Martin and Evan, who no longer amend my artwork and have even stopped eating snacks on my keyboard—a hug to both of you. This book has two authors. Without Jim Goodall’s untiring research, it would have contained less than half the infor- mation that it does. Jim has contributed a great deal in the past to many books, including some of mine, and I am very happy that he has at least received the title-page recognition that he deserves. Bill Sweetman First and foremost, I want to thank my wife, Shelley, son, James, and daughter, Alicia, for being so very understanding of my passion for Lockheed-built “Black Airplanes.” Without their support this…