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From: boulder!snoopy!scottmi@ncar.UCAR.EDU (SCOTT MICHAEL C)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: YF-23 Photographs just released.
Summary: See August issue of U.S. Naval Institute 'Proceedings'
Keywords: Check it out.
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From: boulder!snoopy!scottmi@ncar.UCAR.EDU (SCOTT MICHAEL C)

   

  Photographs of the YF-23 have just been published in this month's issue
of the US Naval Institute's 'Proceedings.'

  The aircraft has a V tail, with the tail surfaces canted outward at an angle
of about 30 degrees above the horizontal.  The aircraft has a wing that looks
to be a truncated delta (with just the extreme tips cut off.)  There are
two air intakes (one for each engine) below the fuselage/wing (the wing and the
wide, flat rear fuselage are extremely well blended) set fairly far aft.  The
two jet exhausts are set on the upper surface of the wing/fuselage.  Unlike the
Lockheed/General Dynamics/Boeing YF-22, the McDonnel Douglas/Northrop YF-23 has
no visible chines.
  The aircraft is a single-seater, with a bubble canopy set rather far foreward
from the wing's leading edge. 
  The aircraft's finish is very smooth, with no visible projections for 
underwing ordnance (presumably, in order to maintain stealthy characteristics,
there will be an internal missile bay -- there appears to be space for such a
weapons be behind and below the cockpit) and no 20mm Vulcan cannon port (at
least not on the left side of the aircraft.)

  The aircraft shown was painted in air-superiority blue, and is expected to
replace both the USAF's F-15 and the USN's F-14.





  
  --don't like snow, miss Deirdre, and wish I was still in Santa Cruz.