| [ SNU ] in KIDS 글 쓴 이(By): child (:: 아리 ::) 날 짜 (Date): 2001년 10월 12일 금요일 오후 04시 08분 25초 제 목(Title): Re: 실제 F16무장을 본 사람이.. 공식적으로 F-19는 없습니다. F-19에 대한 진실은 미공군만 아는 것 같고.... ---------------------------------------------------------------- So it seems that the Lockheed Senior Trend was never known as F-19. So what then WAS F-19? When asked about this, an Air Force spokesman claimed that the F-19 designation had never been assigned to any aircraft because of a fear that it might be confused with the Soviet MiG-19. This doesn't seem plausible, because the designations F-17, F-21, and F-23 had not been skipped. Another theory claims that the designation F-19 had been skipped at the insistence of the Northrop Aircraft Corporation so that they could obtain the F-20 designation for their turbofan-powered derivative of the F-5 Tiger II fighter, which had initially been known as the F-5G. Presumably this would make for better advertising copy--"The Northrop F-20: First of a new generation of fighters", for example. A similar sort of thing happened during World War 2 when the designation P-74 (and perhaps P-73 as well) had been deliberately skipped at the request of the Fisher Body Division of General Motors who wanted their new heavy escort fighter to carry the designation P-75 for advertising reasons. However, I have been unable to come up with a primary source for the Northrop story, so at this stage I can regard it as little more than an "urban legend". This still leaves the question of the missing F-19 unresolved. Perhaps it really is the designation of some other super-secret project, so black that it will not be revealed for many years. Maybe the mysterious "Aurora" that is the subject of so much gossip, rumor, and speculation in this group is designated F-19. However, it is still not at all certain that any such aircraft as the "Aurora" actually exists. Maybe it will turn out that the Air Force had been telling the truth all along, that there never was an aircraft known as F-19. Perhaps all of this confusion was part of a deliberate plot by the Air Force to confuse Soviet intelligence--hoodwinking them into expending so much effort in trying to find out information about a plane that does not exist. --------------------------------------------------------------- F-21은 http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/row/kfir.htm 을 보시면 됩니다. 이스라엘은 참 좋겠네. 비행기 개발을 해주는 친구들도 있고. 난 끊임없이 누군가를 찾는다. metheus@iname.com 내가 누구인지도 모른 채... |