Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!military From: umhudso7@ccu.umanitoba.CA (Wayne Hudson) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Aircraft Nicknames Message-ID: <1990Sep28.014435.13932@cbnews.att.com> Date: 28 Sep 90 01:44:35 GMT References: <1990Sep11.024414.14310@cbnews.att.com> <1990Sep18.024251.20000@cbnews.att.com> <1990Sep20.022328.15430@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military-request@att.att.com Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Lines: 26 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Wayne Hudson In article <1990Sep20.022328.15430@cbnews.att.com> writes: >From: att!utzoo!henry >>From: Adrian Hurt >>>F-117, Lockheed = The Black Jet; Nighthawk; Frisbee; and F-19 ... >>I thought F-19 was the code applied to the fictitious (?) curvy stealth >>aircraft, as depicted in several models and a computer game. >As has been mentioned before, there is good reason to suspect that F-19 >was the designation the angular one was meant to have. "F-117" is a >violation of the official designation rules, and the USAF seldom skips >a designation number for the benefit of modellers and gamers. But I thought the 'F-19' has turned out to be alot like the new (Lockheed?) entry into the ATF competition (mach 2+, w/ some stealth capabilities). It reportedly (haven't seen anything of it myself) has the same basic shape, but differences in things like the tail being angled out instead of in (but at the same angle...). Anyone else? There was speculation that Testors acually HAD good spy info, just got the wrong company... -- Wayne Hudson "Optimism:the belief that everything will work out - umhudso7@ccu.umanitoba.ca fine. Irrational, bordering on insane" K9, Dr. Who