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Thank goodness you had the fortitude to retrieve them BillRo!!I have been scanning some old slides and came across some slides of the Yf-17that were being thrown in the trash when the F-18L was cancelled. They show some demonstration weapons loadouts for F-18A development. The earlier ones with the aircraft in silver paint are from 1975 while the camo paint is from March 1976. Here are the 1975 images
Link doesn't work, and for the thousandth time, GIVE THE NAME OF THE REPORT so I can find it and fix the link.
Go Bill!!Every now and again for several years I presented the F-18 mockup to visitors to Northrop. Here are a couple of pix with the big models we used to explain the aircraft. They did not let me talk to the possible customers, but the guy with me in the dark photo was the Brit Consul General in LA.
Wow, 50-years.....so that means I was 3-years old when she first flew.
That a fantastic profile scale drawing thank you hesham, it give a great perspective of size difference in the contenders.From Aviation magazine 1975.