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To: taildragger

I think the F-16XL would have been an interesting version. For some reasons, they chose not to develop it.


95 posted on 07/04/2013 8:55:56 AM PDT by GBA (Our obamanation: Animal Farm meets 1984 in A Brave New World. Crony capitalism, chaos and control.)
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To: GBA
For some reasons, they chose not to develop it.

The reason is money. Some people can drain more money out of the system with a F-35 than with a F-16XL.
96 posted on 07/04/2013 9:44:09 AM PDT by MHalblaub ("Easy my friends, when it comes to the point it is only a drawing made by a non believing Dane...")
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