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High-performance jet fighter, fully armed with missiles, guns. ECM equipment, fresh paint (stars and bars painted over), single seat, 97% reliability rate, will outclimb, outturn F-16, outrun F-14, low fuel burn (relatively), all digital avionics, radar, terrain following, INS, GPS, Tacan, used only for testing and sales promotion. Now in storage.Contact Northrop Corp. Will trade for Mig-25 and home address of Air Force Acquisition officer.
— ad found in 'Pacific Flyer' magazine, shortly after the F-20 program was cancelled.
For the Morbid Types...
"God, look at that thing!That don't seem right, does it?That's not right."
— First Officer Roger Pettit, during takeoff roll, Air Florida Flight 90, 1982.
High-performance jet fighter, fully armed with missiles, guns. ECM equipment, fresh paint (stars and bars painted over), single seat, 97% reliability rate, will outclimb, outturn F-16, outrun F-14, low fuel burn (relatively), all digital avionics, radar, terrain following, INS, GPS, Tacan, used only for testing and sales promotion. Now in storage.Contact Northrop Corp. Will trade for Mig-25 and home address of Air Force Acquisition officer.
— ad found in 'Pacific Flyer' magazine, shortly after the F-20 program was cancelled.
For the Morbid Types...
"God, look at that thing!That don't seem right, does it?That's not right."
— First Officer Roger Pettit, during takeoff roll, Air Florida Flight 90, 1982.
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