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so the venue seems clear for me to hypothesise . Not that ı will accept what ı am about to say , as this is the devil's advocacy .Let's  contribute to aviation history once in a while ...


how about taking E as a twin ventral straked F-104 that got studied and refused in the 50s only to come back as an unofficial proposal as related in


http://www.nf104.com/ab/ch_4/vi.html


in the early 60s . It is above my head to fully follow but ı can clearly see the test pilot in the link opposed the scheme . But it finally became , figuratively speaking , real in the form of S . The trainer would be TF-104E .


though the end result would probably turn out to be a marketing ploy ; G is Germany just like Northrop got a new designation instead of F-5G , which of course had to be the  F-19 . Naturally  this must be viewed under the light of the operational need to hide actual combat equipment that might be polished time to time in case it has to drop things in anger . You never know when you need stuff .


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