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The F/A-18 Hornet: Inside the Navy Plane that Almost Never Flew
The Air Force passed on the YF-17 prototype, preferring the more agile F-16. But Navy planners liked it—ultimately ...
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The Navy’s F/A-18 Hornet Is Still Deadly After Nearly 50 Years
But the prototype from which the F/A-18 was developed, the YF-17, failed to impress U.S. Air Force reviewers considering bids for the Lightweight Fighter (LWF) program. The Air Force passed on the ...
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A Short (Very Short) History of the F-19
In 1986, as speculation about Lockheed’s Northrop built what it called the YF-17 technology demonstrator ... with the result designated F-18.) Testors assumed that in order to deflect radar ...