On 5/18/04 6:30 PM, in article
. net, "Frijoles"
wrote:

A-12?? Nope. They never built more than a full-scale mock-up and few odds
and ends components of that one...


I'm familiar. In fact, I was just showing it to my wife the other day.
Funny, it was overweight just LOOKING at it.

...and of course, that led to the most successful tanker in the history of
the CV Navy -- the F-18E/F.


The E/F was on its way ANYWAY. They just dumped the A-12 money into it.
The A-12 was a failure from the start because the requirements were too
ambitious. One of my buddies put it best after hearing them listed off in a
briefing: "I'll believe it when I see it in the break."

He was right. It was a fairy tail.

My A-12 reference was tongue-in-cheek, but there's a serious side to it.

--Woody