Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!pacbell.com!pacbell!att!cbnews!military From: jfb@ihlpm.att.com (Joseph F Baugher) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: F-117 vs F-19 -- List of Army/Air Force Fighter Designations Summary: Re: Jaguar carrier-based variable-sweep fighter Message-ID: <1990Aug9.015900.8438@cbnews.att.com> Date: 9 Aug 90 01:59:00 GMT References: <1990Jul30.015849.8835@cbnews.att.com> <1990Aug7.040942.7127@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Indian Hill - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 45 Approved: military@att.att.com From: jfb@ihlpm.att.com (Joseph F Baugher) In article <1990Aug7.040942.7127@cbnews.att.com>, fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix) writes: > > > From: fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix) > > >From: ihlpm!jfb (Joseph F Baugher +1 708 713 4548) > >F-13 Not assigned (I suspect for superstitious reasons). > > Hey, would YOU want to fly on an airplane named F-13? > > Grumman XF13F "Jaguar". Swing-wing fighter testbed. Led to > (apparently) F-14. > > (The long list this came from is great. Especially the ones > that never saw operational service.) > > ------------ > The only drawback with morning is that it comes > at such an inconvenient time of day. > ------------ > Small nit: It's XF10F-1 Jaguar. This was a fighter prototype which was intended to lead to an actual production fighter. The Jaguar had a high-mounted variable sweep wing and a high-mounted T-tail. The aircraft was powered by the unreliable Westinghouse J-40 turbojet, which was the Achilles-heel of many a 'fifties era fighter plane. The sole prototype built was deemed too unstable and too heavy to warrant a production order. However, the variable sweep wing worked fairly well and provided lots of good data which was to be of great value in the F-14 Tomcat project. Grumman's last fighter plane in the FxF series was the XF12F-1. It was a proposal for a twin-engine escort fighter designed to the same requirement as was the F4H Phantom. The project never got off the drawing board. Joe Baugher ************************************** AT&T Bell Laboratories * "Round up the usual suspects." * 200 Park Plaza ************************************** Naperville, Illinois 60566-7050 (708) 713 4548 ihlpm!jfb Who, me? Speak for AT&T? Surely you jest! jfb200@cbnewsd.att.com