Re: YF-113G/Bird of Prey?


Message posted by Magoo on January 17, 2004 at 13:36:14 PST:

>Ok, more or less as expected. So although it's
>perfectly fine that the general public knows all
>sorts of facts about aircraft like TACIT BLUE, BoP,
>etc. (the size and shape, basic flight performance,
>when it was built, when it was flown and by whom,
>the general scope of the tests), public knowledge
>that said aircraft were also known as YF- would
>jeopardize national security!?! Go figure.

Which suggests that some of the aircraft that may have had the YF-11? designations you're asking about may have advanced to 'black' operational status, or have been high performance. TB and BoP were neither.

Magoo


In Reply to: Re: YF-113G/Bird of Prey? posted by Andreas Parsch on January 17, 2004 at 11:58:17 PST:

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