Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!military
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Central.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: variable geometry wings
Message-ID: <15493@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 90 00:55:41 GMT
References: <15230@cbnews.ATT.COM> <15281@cbnews.ATT.COM> <15314@cbnews.ATT.COM> <15409@cbnews.ATT.COM> <15454@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc.
Lines: 29
Approved: military@att.att.com



From: geoffm@purplehaze.Central.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)

In article <15454@cbnews.ATT.COM> fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix) writes:


>The Blue Angels transitioned from F-11F-1 Super Tigers to A-4 Skyhawks to
>F/A-18 Hornets over a couple of decades.

They flew F-4's for a few years in the late Sixties/early Seventies, between
the Tigers and the A-4's.


>The Thunderbirds (U.S.A.F.) flew F-4's for a while, but left them for less
>fuel-hungry T-38 Talons and now fly F-16's.  

This was during the same time frame that the Blue Angels had *their* F-4's.
Not a lot of variety in those days.  


Geoff Miller



++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Geoff Miller				+  No clever .sig file today.
geoffm@purplehaze.sun.com		+       ----- ///// -----
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++