On Sep 22, 9:29*pm, Peter Stickney wrote:
Snidely wrote:
Fred J. McCall used his keyboard to write :
Snidely wrote:

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The paint makes me wonder if Dryden has the old Northrop YF-17 'in
stock'. *They painted them that way during the 'light fighter'
fly-off. *It was the 'land based' prototype that the F/A-18 was
built off of.

Interesting; there's no end of background material most of us will
never know about.

I don't think the YF-17's still around. (These aren't - the F/A-18 has
a bigger nose than the really pointy (essentially radar-less YF-17)

YF-17
Aircraft on display

YF-17 Cobra, s/n 72-1569, is on display at the Western Museum of
Flight in Torrance, California.[8]
YF-17 Cobra, s/n 72-1570 is on display at the Battleship Memorial
Park in Mobile, Alabama.[9]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_YF-17

Only the pair were built.

Andre