Re: I raised the wall


Message posted by Peter Merlin on August 27, 2010 at 10:05:03 PST:

The YF-11X designation series is virtually designed to cause confusion. The numbers were assigned in somewhat random order. The YF-113A was a MiG-17F but the YF-113B and YF-113E were MiG-23 variants. In a brief and fairly obscure project (HAVE PRIVILEGE) in 1970, a Cambodian MiG-17F was flown as the YF-113C. Since this project has probably been forgotten by the recent generation of Red Hats, it should come as no surprise that the designation was reused in the early 1990s for an entirely different airplane.

Historians can go insane confronting the fact that two identical MiG-17F aircraft flown in 1969 have different designations (YF-113A and YF-114C) while two completely different airplanes - YF-113C (circa 1970) and YF-113C (circa 1992) - have the same designation. Adding the YF-113G and YF-113H into the mix only invites madness.


In Reply to: Re: I raised the wall posted by Thud on August 27, 2010 at 5:51:39 PST:

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