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To: yankeedame
Here's a pic of the F-16xl. It was never classified and so flew regularily and always generated phone calls. Should have been built to. Great plane.

f-16xl

24 posted on 02/19/2009 7:17:16 AM PST by PilotDave (I have an enormous stimulus package....)
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To: PilotDave

Dave, wasn’t the F-16XL with the “cranked-delta wing” General Dynamic’s entry into the program that ultimately yielded the F-15E Strike Eagle? I think I remember reading that somewhere...


56 posted on 02/19/2009 8:23:43 AM PST by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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