This RAF Phantom was stenciled with an “F-117 DON’T ASK” zap after it made an emergency landing...

On Apr. 9, 1990 a RAF Tornado GR1 participating in a Red Flag exercise in the US made an emergency landing at Tonopah Air Force Base (AFB), then home of the top-secret F-117 Nighthawk (CLICK HERE to read the story).

A Nighthawk silhouette was applied to the fin of the Tonka as a result of the emergency landing. “The guys at Tonopah had a sense of humour after all, for the silhouette of an F-117 had been stenciled on each side of our tail fin,” Squadron Leader Wally Grout, former RAF Tornado navigator, said in Ian Hall’s book Tornado Boys. https://theaviationgeekclub.com/that-time-a-raf-tornado-made-an-emergency-landing-at-f-117s-top-secret-tonopah-air-force-base/