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From: jons@osc.edu (Jon Steinbach )
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Subject: Re: variable geometry wings
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Date: 12 Apr 90 00:55:39 GMT
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From: jons@osc.edu (Jon Steinbach )

In article <15454@cbnews.ATT.COM> fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix) writes:
>
>fuel-hungry T-38 Talons and now fly F-16's.  (Fighting Falcon is a dumb
>name...I like Electric Jet a lot better.)
>
  When the debate over what name for the F-16 arose the fighter pilots
  wanted it to be called the Viper, but this was not used because, among
  other reasons, this name was already used in a TV series "Battlestar 
  Gallactica" for a type of fighter/spaceship.

Jon Steinbach
jons@oscsunb.osc.edu