Message posted by NotTelling (Member since 07/02/2023) on July 02, 2023 at 0:40:46 PST:
"Examples include the D-558-1 and D-558-2, HL-20, M2-F1, M2-F2, and M2-F3, to name a few." Peter, note that those aircraft were built to NACA/NASA contracts and were not required to follow DOD nomenclature requirements. Urban myth says that when SecDef was briefed on the winner (X-35) he was supposed to announce it as the next F-24 that was next in line but mistakenly called it the F-35. I know that supposedly happened before when Pres Johnson mistakenly referred to the RS-71 as the SR-71 and folks scrambled to "fix" it.
In Reply to: Re: YF-220 and X-273 removed from Dan Javorsek resume posted by Peter Merlin on July 01, 2023 at 15:22:49 PST:
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