Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!military From: fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Variable geometry wings Message-ID: <15452@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 11 Apr 90 03:16:59 GMT References: <15313@cbnews.ATT.COM> Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Lines: 19 Approved: military@att.att.com From: fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix) > From: "IF INSANITY IS AN ART, CALL ME PICASO" > > A-4's are used to simulate MiG-17's. Though > this MiG is old, it is still around in some countries. The Navy has picked > up some F-16's to simulate newer Soviet aircraft. These replaces Israeli- > designed C-2 Kfir aircraft on loan to us from them. I understand these > have been returned now. Some of them may still be flying with Marine pilots. (At least a recently as last July 4.) ------------ "Up the airey mountain, down the rushy glen, we daren't go a-hunting for fear of little men..." ('cause Fish and Game has taken to hiring axe-carrying dwarves)