On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 12:06:11 -0600, Alan Minyard
wrote:

On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 19:05:21 GMT, Andrew Chaplin wrote:

Alan Minyard wrote:

Is not the CF-118 an F/A-18??

Its official designation is CF-188 (I got this from the Cost Factors
Manual, a common reference used by the CF, DND and the Auditor General
(the Canadian equivalent of the GAO) among others). It is now referred
to as a CF-18, because if they use the correct designation, most of
the media types stupidly go, "Hunh?" It's not called "Hornet" because
that was different in French ("frelon") and already taken.
http://www.airforce.forces.gc.ca/equip/equip1m_e.htm
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Thank you Sir, that is some excellent information.

Just to grab onto this here. Is there a copy of the Cost Factors
Manual available online?