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0 pointspedrocr11y ago0 comments

>Correction: him and the fighter mafia hated the F-15. His work lead to F-16 and F/A-18.

If I recall correctly the F-15 was partly his baby but he only got in mid-way so couldn't make it as good as he wanted it. Then the Lightweight Fighter program was run by him and generated the YF-16 and YF-17 prototypes. The YF-16 won the competition and became the F-16. Then the Navy didn't like a single engine plane (or didn't like an air force plane) and took the YF-17 and made the F-18.

So I doubt they hated the F-15 but they definitely liked the F-16 better. I'm not sure how happy they were about the F-18 given that it was a run-around their LWF process.

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hangonhn11y ago

Oh I think you're right. My memory of that book is a bit spotty and I forgot some of the nuances of the situation.

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0 pointspedrocr11y ago0 comments

>Correction: him and the fighter mafia hated the F-15. His work lead to F-16 and F/A-18.

So I doubt they hated the F-15 but they definitely liked the F-16 better. I'm not sure how happy they were about the F-18 given that it was a run-around their LWF process.