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echo: aviation
to: UWE WOLFRAM
from: BILL WUNSCH
date: 1998-04-30 12:43:00
subject: F-20

Greetings, Uwe!
  On 25 Apr 98, Uwe Wolfram entered the following ASCII codes for the express 
viewing pleasure of Bill Wunsch:
 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.
 UW>
 UW> This was a modernized version of the F-5, developed by Northrop in
 UW> a private initiative, initially called F-5G. It was layed out to achieve
 UW> Mach 1.9 and 9 g. The three prototypes surpassed all expectations, but
 UW> due to a lack of orders the project was cancelled in 1986.
Thanks.  There wasn't enough of the plane (it was more like a picture of the 
GENERAL with a plane background) shown to get an idea of the lines, so I 
couldn't tell what it really looked like.  But by looks of the flying suit, I 
thought it must have been a relatively modern design.
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