Northrop YF-17
12 Nov 2015, 17:15
The past is a foreign country.
Plane Identification Vol IIZ (Other)
For this "Z" volume, I thought I might throw something modern in.
-Hint: It is not in active service right now.
6 Replies
15 Apr 2016, 04:57
YF-17 Cobra. Says so in the pic.
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
-Winston Churchill
Attack rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, without rest, however tired and hungry you may be, the enemy will be more tired, more hungry. Keep punching.
-George S. Patton
-Winston Churchill
Attack rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, without rest, however tired and hungry you may be, the enemy will be more tired, more hungry. Keep punching.
-George S. Patton
15 Apr 2016, 05:49
YF-17 Cobra.
"I came, I saw, I conquered" Written in a report to Rome 47 B.C., after conquering Pharnaces at Zela in Asia Minor in just five days; as quoted in Life of Caesar by Plutarch; reported to have been inscribed on one of the decorated wagons in the Pontic triumph, in Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Julius, by Suetonius.
"Alea iacta est" Gaius Julius Caesar.
21 Apr 2016, 07:15
YF-17 Cobra
Carl Wilson
“Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?”
― Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue
"Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'… Rule 2 is: 'Do not go fighting with your land armies in China."
Bernard Law Montgomery, British general
“Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?”
― Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue
"Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'… Rule 2 is: 'Do not go fighting with your land armies in China."
Bernard Law Montgomery, British general
21 Apr 2016, 08:44
The right choice is YF-17 Cobra.
"I came, I saw, I conquered" Written in a report to Rome 47 B.C., after conquering Pharnaces at Zela in Asia Minor in just five days; as quoted in Life of Caesar by Plutarch; reported to have been inscribed on one of the decorated wagons in the Pontic triumph, in Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Julius, by Suetonius.
"Alea iacta est" Gaius Julius Caesar.
22 Apr 2016, 02:09
YF-17 was an interesting aircraft......a descendant of the F-5, and by extension the T-38. Insane thrust-to-weight ratio (1.25!), crisp handling, but light armament...only two AIM-9s and one 20mm Vulcan came standard. Then the beefed-up version (the F-1
lost many of the Cobra's advantages, not to mention speed. US Navy shoulda used a navalized version of the F-16.
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