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From: shafer@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer)
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Subject: Re: Don't Mess with NASA (afterburners)
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Date: 24 Jul 89 18:48:46 GMT
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In article <191@tessan.datessa.se> patrik@tessan.datessa.se (Patrik Andreasen) writes:

>(Various postings about how you can't by a fighter as your own personal toy)

>But howzabout a F-20 Tigershark? After all the USAF didn't want it, and
>there are 3 (or two?) prototypes that Northrop built on their own money.

One.  The other two were destroyed in crashes--one in Canada, one in
Korea (I think)--during flight demonstrations.  Probably G-LOC, maybe
the T-38/F-5 inverted pitch hang-up.
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M F Shafer                          shafer@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov
NASA Ames Research Center           arpa!elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer
Dryden Flight Research Facility
                Of course I don't speak for NASA