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To: USNBandit

Looks like a pelican.


9 posted on 08/31/2012 11:42:53 AM PDT by Erasmus (Zwischen des Teufels und des tiefen, blauen Meers)
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To: Erasmus

The challenge to getting that thing going fast is that the F-5 used an aeronautical design concept called area rule to go fast. The “pelican” beak kinda tosses that all out the window. It could still go supersonic, but it would have been easier if they had strapped on an extra engine. :)


11 posted on 08/31/2012 1:57:25 PM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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