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Yeah, I was very suspect of the droop nose and the big windshield
myself. Not only that, why in the world would this "pilot" have her name on
the side of a prototype and why doesn't it have the usual twelve foot tall
letters of the model number (YF/A-37)? Forward swept elevons? I don't think
so. The clincher was the bottom pic with the guys in the foreground manning
a big movie camera. Mike C.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom" <tomtugan@yahoo.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 12:02 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Fw: F/A-37 -Hollywood!
As real as the upcoming movie "Stealth", filmed with this A-37 studio prop
on
the USS Abraham Lincoln. Only Hollywood would re-use the A-37
designation for
another plane and have the pilot not wearing an O2 mask. And for a real
airplane, that droopy nose would be an issue, for a Mach 3-4 plane that
large
picture-window canopy would have to be be an issue.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/a37.asp
Tom
--- kevin lane <n3773@comcast.net> wrote:
> I was noticing the incredible amount of duct work on this plane, and the
> total absence of NACA scoops, maybe the mach 4 has something to do with
it.
> (we don't need no vert. stabs!)
> Kevin Lane Portland, OR
> e-mail-> n3773@comcast.net
> web-> http://home.comcast.net/~n3773
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> ----- Original Message ----- > From: Lane, Michael
> To: Kevin Lane (E-mail)
> Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 7:34 AM
> Subject: FW: F/A-37 -awesome!
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> From: Jamie Cannon [mailto:jamcan39@adelphia.net]
> Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 10:19 AM
> To: Bill & Laurie Sherman; Bill Brazell; Bill Lineberger; Bill Miller;
Bobby
> Abadi; Brian Cannon; Charlotte Cannon; Donald K. Franke; Harold Brooks;
Jim
> Anderson; Mike Langohr; Mike Abare
> Subject: F/A-37 -awesome!
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> Totally awesome!
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> The plane in these pictures is still officially the Air Vehicle Number
1, a
> prototype, onboard the USS George Washington CVN-73 for catapult fit
checks.
> Not exactly still Top Secret but certainly not yet made public.
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> It will be known as the F/A-37. Although specs are classified, it is
> believed to be Mach 3.5 (top speed in the Mach 4 range), super-cruise
stealth
> fighter/bomber/interceptor with approximately a 4,000nm range. Awesome!
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> Check out the Navy test pilot in the cockpit of the F/A-37...LT Kara
> Wade... go girl!
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