This A-17 thingy.....

Did (or does) the A-17 have anything to do with the A-12 Avenger II? It is fairly similar and designed by Grumman. I wonder if anyone knows?

www.habu2.net...

the avenger has a more stealthy design but i think the A-17 can go faster but im not sure if they are related

I should think it can go faster as the Avenger is made of plastic and has no engines

BTW I know what you mean really, cheers.

originally posted by: waynos
I should think it can go faster as the Avenger is made of plastic and has no engines

BTW I know what you mean really, cheers.

The unbuilt A-12 Avenger II was intended to use two General Electric F412 turbofans and would have used composite materials in its construction. The alleged stealthy fighter-bomber mentioned in a January 1995 issue of Popular Science was dubbed "A-17" by the writers of the magazine article about this putative fighter-bomber because those authors claimed without evidence that A-14 and A-15 were assigned to competing designs that lost out to the A-12 Avenger II and noted that an unbuilt close air support version of the F-16 was informally dubbed A-16. The authors of the "A-17" article even raised the possibility that the triangular aircraft that was seen refueling from a KC-135 by Chris Gibson in August 1989 was the "A-17" rather than a classified hypersonic spyplane.