Hi Bill!
BW> "Tigershark" painted on the nose.  The caption reads "The F-20
BW> Tigershark, which General Yeager thinks is the finest fighter".  I
BW> assume if was never produced in number, as I don't recall hearing of
BW> it anywhere else, and the book does not mention it.
This was a modernized version of the F-5, developed by Northrop in
a private initiative, initially called F-5G. It was layed out to achieve
Mach 1.9 and 9 g. The three prototypes surpassed all expectations, but
due to a lack of orders the project was cancelled in 1986.
Uwe
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