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  • From: Ian Meyer <ianmeyer AT gmail.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] F-1# Overflights
  • Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 09:42:08 -0400

also, you can tell the F-15 by the fact that the engine intakes are
not attached to the fuselage, they are suspended from the wings


On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 00:47:56 -0400, David Minton <dminton AT mindspring.com>
wrote:
> On 10/10/04 11:51 PM, "Simon Spero" <ses AT unc.edu> wrote:
>
> > Alan MacHett wrote:
> >
> >> Have any of you or anyone you know managed to get photographs of the
> >> F-whatevers that have been strafing us these past few days? I'm trying
> >> to
> >> identify the aircraft and squadron, but without an image on hand it's
> >> hard
> >> to work from a memory of something zipping past at a few hundred knots.
> >>
> >>
> > http://airdefense.bliss.army.mil/fm4480/Default.htm
> >
> > Fighter. USAF. Two vertical tail fins.
>
> If that is the case, I think it is pretty easy. As far as I recall, the USAF
> only has two fighters with two vertical stabilizers in inventory--the F-15
> and F-117:
>
> http://airdefense.bliss.army.mil/fm4480/chpt6/eagle/33h02.htm
> http://airdefense.bliss.army.mil/fm4480/chpt5/f117a/28h01.htm
>
> At least until the F/A-22 is deployed in 2005:
>
> http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/military/f22/f22_back.html
>
> My guess of the three would be F-15 ;-)
>
> David
>
>
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