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From: jwstuart@ecst.csuchico.edu (Jesse William Leo Stuart)
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Subject: Re: F-19 vs. F-117
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Date: 4 Feb 91 05:33:15 GMT
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From: jwstuart@ecst.csuchico.edu (Jesse William Leo Stuart)
    It may be rather late to post this, but what the heck?!


    F-21 Kfir    An Isreali built developement of the Mirage 5, bought by the
                 US navy as a Top Gun agressor aircraft.  It cost much less
                 than an equivilent A-4, which proforms rather like the Kfir
                 since the French spent all of the developement costs for the
                 Mirage 5, and the Isrealis stole the blueprints!

    The 100 series fighters were so called because the WWII P- designation for
aircraft, meaning Persuit (ie.  P-51 Mustang, P-40 Warhawk, etc..) were changed
to F- aircraft for Fighter since the Pursuit aircraft concept of the 20's and
30's was so radically changed during WWII.  The latter F-100+ nomenclature was
just a continuation of this.  

Jess Stuart
CSU Chico..