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Offline Perrine

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F-20 Tigershark promo
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Re: F-20 Tigershark promo
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2017, 03:36:42 PM »
That was a cool jet.  Those G-LOC crashes doomed it.
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Re: F-20 Tigershark promo
« Reply #2 on: January 08, 2017, 03:40:06 PM »
pffft looks like a Mig-28 to me!

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Re: F-20 Tigershark promo
« Reply #3 on: January 08, 2017, 04:19:41 PM »
pffft looks like a Mig-28 to me!

I see what you tried to do there.
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Re: F-20 Tigershark promo
« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2017, 11:20:20 PM »
pffft looks like a Mig-28 to me!

I had to flip my monitor over to see the resemblance.
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Re: F-20 Tigershark promo
« Reply #5 on: January 09, 2017, 06:28:04 PM »
Q:  What is the difference between an F-5 and an F20?

A:  F-15       :banana:
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Re: F-20 Tigershark promo
« Reply #6 on: January 09, 2017, 06:56:21 PM »
Hah Mongoose, that's pretty good.

F20 has been my fav fighter since the late 80s.  Chuck Yeager was a huge proponent of it, and other small, light, cheap, etc fighters.  The sortie generation rates of the thing were impressive for the time.  Imagine a modern engine in that airframe now - crazy.

I have a couple other documentaries on it bookmarked, on another PC, I'll link them in later if anyone cares to watch them.

The book "Warriors" came out in the early 90s, Barret Tillman wrote it, he's an excellent aviation author and former fighter pilot, and wrote a great book with the F20 Tigershark being the main character essentially.  You can't find it in epub/online anywhere, but I've found used paperback copies for 1 cent on ebay all the time.  If you like the F20, it's a must read IMO.

The Gripen today has many F20 like qualities - especially the ability to have very rapid turnarounds and sortie rates.  Good friend of mine flew the Gripen at Empire test pilot school a lot, 50 hours or so, and really wanted our country (Canada) to seriously consider it instead of the F35, mostly due to cost, but also for capability - it's refueling system matches up with our boomless tankers, the latest model w/ 3 tanks has great range, and a fantastic AESA radar and IRST. 

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Re: F-20 Tigershark promo
« Reply #7 on: January 09, 2017, 11:25:57 PM »
I don't think Tillman is a military pilot.   Pretty sure he is all-civvie.

I will have to look for that book.  Thanks for the suggestion.
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Re: F-20 Tigershark promo
« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2017, 09:42:32 AM »
Never realized that it had AGM84 capabilities.

Cool video,  thanks for sharing.
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Re: F-20 Tigershark promo
« Reply #9 on: January 18, 2017, 12:30:45 PM »
Q:  What is the difference between an F-5 and an F20?

A:  F-15       :banana:

F-20 had 1 F404 engine, F5E/F's had 2 J85-GE21s.  F20 had more thrust, slightly more wing area, much better avionics, made its own O2
,carried more and had a bit longer legs(fuel) than the F5.  When I was going to F-5 school at Williams back in 86 a few F20s flew in..I then Chuck was flying one of them.  2 of the 3 pilots hustled off and 1 guy hung out to answer the questions of 4 rookie airmen.  The pilots who flew itliked it, if it only had more internal fuel it might have fared better against the 16. Makes you wonder why Reagan wouldn't allow foreign sales.  Would have loved to work on that thing, the engineers had the mechs in mind from the outset (not that the F5 was hard to work on).






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Re: F-20 Tigershark promo
« Reply #10 on: January 19, 2017, 03:18:02 AM »
...The pilots who flew itliked it, if it only had more internal fuel it might have fared better against the 16. Makes you wonder why Reagan wouldn't allow foreign sales.
It was offered to Israel as a substitute to the Lavi project after the US pulled the plug on that one. Israel declined and got new F16s (before that they got early models and hand-me-downs) - smart decision because being the only customer of the F20 would have been a bad idea.

I would not be surprised if what killed the F20 were interests, petty politics, and a good dose of kickbacks. Too bad. I really like that plane, and it would have been a good fit to the IAF, alongside the F16s and F15s. At the time, Kfirs and Phantoms were still in service and the F20 could have replaces the Kfirs and some of the F4s squadrons.
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