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reply posted on 25-3-2004 @ 08:40 AM by Popeye
Check out the following site which chronciles US military aircraft designation since its beginnings. The system most people think of is the current Combined Services System which started in 1962

www.driko.org...

As regards F-19 it says in the end notes
The F-19 designation is rumored to have been skipped in order to promote the F-20 as a "new generation" fighter. This has since been confirmed by Andreas Parsch through an FOIA request to the DoD. Apparently, Northrop requested the number "20" versus "19" to avoid a confusion with the MiG-19, which may sound a little unusual, but is apparently the case. See Andreas Parch's excellent summary of "unknown designations" for a more complete explanation. The F-19 was earlier assumed to be the designation for the Lockheed Stealth Fighter, now properly known as the F-117A. By skipping the F-19 designation, the U.S. was able to truthfully deny any knowledge of an "F-19 Stealth Fighter." (See note 12 for possible explanations of the F-117 designation)

As for F-13 one of the older system does use it.


reply posted on 25-3-2004 @ 10:45 PM by ShadowMan


"F-19 - No such animal. It is officially undocumented, but generally assumed that the F-19 designation was skipped in 1982 in order to honor the Northrop F-20 (qv) with an even "next-generation" number.

Striving to keep pace with technology, Testors hit the market with an F-19 kit based on eyewitness reports from "usually reliable sources," research, gut level guesswork, and patterned it after the smooth-surfaced Lockheed SR-71. By May 1986 their kit was on hobby shop shelves and nearly 700,000 were sold in 18 months. However, somebody had pulled a plug in the Pentagon.

Stealth technology at the time was one of our military's worst-kept secrets, and it was assumed that F-19 had been reserved for that department. There was so much speculation that the USAF, with uncommon humor, even roped off a vacant plot at the 1988 Edwards AFB Air Show with a sign identifying the "F-19 Flying Frisbee." But when the much-heralded stealth fighter was designated F-117A and was anything but smooth, the F-19 idea lost most of its lustre, and folks generally accepted that the designation had been purposely skipped when F-20 showed up.

Yet, much like with those little green men they scraped off the Roswell landscape, folklore and wishful thinking took hold, and there came many reports from "usually reliable sources" who saw the real Testors F-19 flying around in remote desert regions usually off-limits to reliable sources. (Because of the popularity of the designation, the USAF Museum's Internet page lists a "Lockheed F-19 CSIRS," but its link connects the F-117A.) (— K O Eckland)"

Interesting Link: www.csd.uwo.ca...


reply posted on 25-3-2004 @ 11:28 PM by ShadowMan
No problem, as i keep looking i keep getting some good information for you Heres a link to the paper model of the f-19 and some more information on it
www.fiddlersgreen.net...
When you get to the page after your done reading you can click "f19 main page" at the top and you can "buy and download" the paper model i guess if you like it that much

Wanna fly the f-19? heres the simulator takegame.com...

[Edited on 25-3-2004 by ShadowMan]
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