On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 15:53:51 +1000, Richard Stewart
wrote:

Hi Guys,
Just wondering what the alternate (losing) choices were for the main US
older fighter aircraft?

eg. I know the YF17 lost out to the F18...

The YF-17 lost to the YF-16.

But what were the competitors to the rest (you don't need to go back too
far) - that's if they actually HAD competitors...

F14?

No fly off

F15?

No fly off.

F16?

YF-16 over the YF-17

A10?

YF-10 won against the YF-9.

F117?

No fly off.

(have I missed any?)

F-15E over the F-16XL, although I don't know how formal the fly off
was.

F-18L lost to the F/A-18 but the former was paper and the latter was
flying.

YC-14 and YC-15, but both lost.

C-5 beat the Boeing version which became the 747 but that was in the
paper stage, not prototypes

and any pix?

You can see the YF-17 and F-18, F-14, F-15, F-16, and F-16XL in the
gallery at www.dfrc.nasa.gov

Cheers,
Richard

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Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer