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You don't know the context and you're trolling. The F-14 was for a time a direct competitor and a major threat to the FX program. The USAF ultimately had to build its FX to be as different as possible from the F-14 - one crew member, fixed wing, lighter weight - or the FX would not have been approved by Congress. Even the Navy itself tried to kill the FX program with the common F-100/401 engine, and thanks to the FX program people's relationship with Pratt Whitney, the opposite happened - the F-14 lost its engine. Via Frederick T. Rall and also Donn S. Byrnes.

[QUOTE="wasp850, post: 767097, member: 16204"] You don't know the context and you're trolling. The F-14 was for a time a direct competitor and a major threat to the FX program. The USAF ultimately had to build its FX to be as different as possible from the F-14 - one crew member, fixed wing, lighter weight - or the FX would not have been approved by Congress. Even the Navy itself tried to kill the FX program with the common F-100/401 engine, and thanks to the FX program people's relationship with Pratt Whitney, the opposite happened - the F-14 lost its engine. Via Frederick T. Rall and also Donn S. Byrnes. [/QUOTE]

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