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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: US Fighter Designations
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Date: 15 Aug 90 03:23:03 GMT
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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
>>
>>>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


Wasn't there also a program to use the engines developed for the 
YF-12 in a Delta Dart airframe? The result was an airplane that 
was supposed to have outperformed the F-4. The project supposedly 
died when the YF-12 program was cancelled.

Does anyone have any information on the F-12 project? What was 
the performance of this airplane supposed to be? What kind of
armament was it supposed to have mounted? The project was supposed
to produce a strategic bomber interceptor, and instead spawned the 
SR-71.