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PAK-FAace1234 — RCAF YF-17 Cobra, Lt. Elric
Published: 2014-04-17 22:52:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 1822; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 11
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Commission for:This is a YF-17 of his father, who had the privileged opportunity to pilot the YF-17 while it was under evaluation by the Canadian Armed forces. Lt. Elric has passed as of recently.
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I salute Lt. Elric, and My condolences go out to Storm Alchemist. Well done on the drawing.
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This was information that StormAlchemist had told me. I think he may have confused the YF-17 with the F-18
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Actually, Northrop did send an airframe to 409 Sqn for testing and evaluation in arctic/polar conditions. However, the loss to the YF-16 Halted any and all funding and support being given to Northrop for the project. They withdrew the frame from Canada, and it was sent to Nasa's Dryden Research Center for base drag studies. The airframe in question is #72-1569, Currently in Torrance, California.
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hmm. i found no such records, and i did search extensively. but ok
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Northrop (Now Northrop Grumman) rarely releases full details on just who evaluated their prototypes. Only reason why I know is because I found a picture of my dad's Sqn during the evaluation period and I forced him to spill. That and he said the F-18 felt too stiff to be much of an air superiority fighter.
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the thing i don't find making sense is why the fuck would one evaluate a technology demonstration aircraft after all it was never intended to be a finished and mass produced aircraft the sole point of it was "let us develop something from it" and the F-18 came out of it to wich all models ended as the F/A-18 super hornets
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... Two things. One, The original purpose for the YF-17 was as a competitor in the USAF's LWF Competition, which it lost against the YF-16 Viper, now named the F-16 Fighting Falcon. Two, the plan for the Cobra was originally to become the USAF's next Air-Superiority fighter. and therefore enter mass-production. After losing to the Falcon, Northrop returned to their line of F-5 Freedom Fighters, which culminated in the F-20 Tigershark, Which also failed, and led to the company merging with Grumman.
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very interesting and very eye opening well i guess i was wrong but i ain't complaining extra info about aircraft is always welcome in my book thank you ^_^
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Welcome. I still don't know why the 17 and the 20 failed. I think it was a "You buy my weapon, I support you in the next election" deal with Lockheed Martin and the Gov't
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