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From: ted@cs.utexas.edu (Ted Woodward)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: F19 vs. F117
Message-ID: <1990Aug10.010659.29584@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 10 Aug 90 01:06:59 GMT
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From: ted@cs.utexas.edu (Ted Woodward)

In article <1990Aug7.040915.7012@cbnews.att.com> fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix) writes:

>> F107: I keep thinking that this was a Northrop creation called a
>> 	Cobra.  Never sold to anybody, that I know of.  Wierdest
>> 	looking thing.....
>North American.  Updated F-100.  No service.

This was a very nice plane.  Would have made it (probably) if it didn't have
to go through a fly-off with the F-105 ThunderThud :-)

(What the pilots called the ThunderChief before they realized what a good
plane it was.  Shortened to 'Thud' and kept around...)


-- 
Ted Woodward (ted@cs.utexas.edu)

Greetings, Royal Ugly Dudes!