BILL,
In a message dated 04-23-98 you wrote ...
> Greetings, All!
>
> In a book I have called "YEAGER" (an autobiography of Chuck Yeager),
> there is a
> picture of the General standing in front of a fighter with "Tigershark"
> painted on the nose. The caption reads "The F-20 Tigershark, which
> General Yeager thinks is the finest fighter". I assume if was never
> produced in number, as I don't recall hearing of it anywhere else, and
> the book does not mention it.
>
> Anyone have any info on this?
If I remember correctly, that was an updated version of the
F-5 civilian fighter. never adopted by USAF. I think the
prototypes crashed.
Jim
-=* Jim Sanders *=-
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