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to: BILL WUNSCH
from: JIM SANDERS
date: 1998-04-25 11:48:00
subject: Re: f-20

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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