what about F-42 and F-65

Are there such planes and if yes than are there any pics or koncept art of it .
10x for the info what ever it is...

I did a basic searcha nd came up empty. So I guess there is no F-42 or F-65.


There is a F-60 but its a Ferrari!

There's an X-42, but it's just an upper stage for a launch system. I've never heard of F-42 or F-65, to be honest. They may be American designations for captured or "acquired" Warsaw Pact fighters, or even export variants of certain aircraft, the way the F-20 is the export variant of the F-5.

Page on the X-42 (there's not a lot on it, it's not a very interesting or significant system).

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And google searches turn up absolutely zilch for F-42 and F-65. Sorry, mate.

the F-42 and F-65 designations, have never be used yet, and the air force has not reserved those designations for any of its known or secret aircraft. they are just numbers, nothing more, nothing less

No F42 or F-65's in anybody's inventory since the Wright Brother's flew at Kitty Hawk - here are some close matches though:

A-42 - 1946 Douglas
B-42 - 1943 Douglas


C-42 - 1939 Douglas DC2.5
C-65 - 1942 Stout Skycar

H-65 - 1980 Aerospatiale (F)

O-42 - 1932 Thomas Morse

P-42 - 1939 Curtiss 75
P-65 - 1942 Grumman G34

X-42 - Orbit Transfer Propulsion demonstrator

[Edited on 5-11-2003 by intelgurl]

I don't think so. The F-20 is just a new F-5 version.

...er, yes it is a new version but it was designed in the 80s specifcally for the air forces of other (friendly to the US) countries. I don't know if it's also used by anybody in the States as a chase plane or trainer.

i also couldn't find anything neider have i heard of such plonea which means thanx for the help and forget the question.

The F-5/F-20 does have a trainer version ... the T-38 and it is the standard US (supersonic) trainer.
NASA uses it for a chase plane -

I was confused by your post at first - I thought the T-38 must be an F-20 derivative, and therefore only came into service in the 80s, which I'm sure it didn't. From the pictures it's obviously an F-5 derivative (twin J-85s), although I dunno if it's of the Freedom Fighter or Tiger II... bah, who cares. Sweet little plane, anyway.

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Yeah, if I ever win a lottery maybe I could get one... then i'd just have to learn how to fly it...

I read an ad in an aviation magazine here offering an airworthy ex SAAF Impala for R650 000 - about US$100 000.

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Maybe when I graduate and get paid ludicrous amounts of money...

so what are you studying for

The same old reason - to get qualified! Unlike my previous jobs... ...I intend to make heaps and heaps of loot. Hooray for capitalism!

...if you meant, what I'm actually studying, then I'm a psych major. But I do not intend to be a head doctor! Industrial psychology pays the most...

[Edited on 6-11-2003 by Lampyridae]

~Great pix. These planes are x planes as far as i know. But the idea that they may be fighters I'm not so sure about.

Eh? No, I was talking about the T-38. That's it in the pictures I posted. The T-38 is the standard USAF fighter/bomber trainer, after undergrad pilots qualify on the T-37. NASA also uses it as a trainer and a chase plane.

Ooo a psych major. Well maybe i need your help.