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From: fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: F19 vs. F117
Message-ID: <1990Aug7.040849.6885@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 7 Aug 90 04:08:49 GMT
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From: fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)

> From: welty@lewis.crd.ge.com (richard welty)
> In article <1990Jul27.015630.22235@cbnews.att.com>, Duane P Mantick writes: 
> 
> *F102: Delta Dagger? (I get this and the F106 backwards sometimes) and
> *	I think Convair made this one.  Delta wing.
> 
> convair did make this one.  the `coke bottle' fuselage concept was
> introduced because the prototype YF102A couldn't break mach 1.

The YF-102A was a modified form of the original XF-102/YF-102.

While the original couldn't break Mach 1 in level flight, the -102A, with
the area rule applied went supersonic in a slight climb.

Whitcomb was right.  (He was the one who came up with the area rule
concept.  It isn't his only contribution to aerodynamics, either.)

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