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From: geoffm@EBay.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: USAF F- Planes
Message-ID: <1990Aug5.042358.28005@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 5 Aug 90 04:23:58 GMT
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From: geoffm@EBay.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)


In article <1990Jul31.023112.20171@cbnews.att.com> lang@hpfcso.fc.hp.com (John J. Lang) writes:

>I don't know if this concerns you, but the Hellcat, Bearcat, etc.  are
>Navy Planes.  If you want to list all US planes (Air Force or otherwise)
>you should also include the F-4U Wildcat.

The F4U (no hyphen) was the Chance Vought Corsair; the Grumman Wildcat's
designation was F4F.  ("U" for Chance Vought, "F" for Grumman under the old
Navy system.)


Geoff


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