Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnews!military From: zarda@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Dr. Strangelove) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: US Fighter Designations Message-ID: <1990Aug14.034007.9417@cbnews.att.com> Date: 14 Aug 90 03:40:07 GMT References: <1990Aug5.042539.28495@cbnews.att.com> <1990Aug9.015912.8503@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Lines: 36 Approved: military@att.att.com From: zarda@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Dr. Strangelove) In article <1990Aug9.015912.8503@cbnews.att.com> osprey!tobin@uunet.uu.net (Mike Tobin) writes: >From: osprey!tobin@uunet.uu.net (Mike Tobin) >In article <1990Aug5.042539.28495@cbnews.att.com> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >>>F102: Delta Dagger? (I get this and the F106 backwards sometimes) ... >>>*** Yep. You got it straight. NASA is currently using one to study >>>*** lightning. They fly it into a storm and dare lightning to strike... >>Sorry, slight misidentification here. The NASA lightning-research fighter >>(it does other jobs too, including aerodynamics work on highly-swept wings) >>is an F-106. I think it's specifically an F-106B, the two-man trainer >>version. It is scheduled to be retired before too very long, as the costs > >Most of the AF's F-102s and F-106s ended their days as Q ships: >QF-102/QF-106 (and QF-100 now that I think about it). Q being the designation>for drone (but let's not get into a family history of those :-)). F-102's Were also sold for export to both Turkey and Greece. The last I heard Turkey was still using the F-102 but the book was unsure as to how many were still flying, due to lack of spares. Greece has retired her F-102's and I believe they were replaced by the Mirage F-1. So some of the F-102's may still be around. :-). . . -- Dr. Strangelove "Berlin is the testicles of the West. U.Wisconsin Milwaukee Each time I give them a yank, they Major: Political Science holler." -Khruschev Why that Alias? From the Movie Dr. Strangelove.