Word: tigershark
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...gets Uncle Sam's seal of approval, the bird won't fly with foreign buyers, for whom it was mainly designed in the first place. Northrop will soon get a chance to prove that its long and largely successful p.r. campaign for the F-20 was justified: the Tigershark will go head to head with the F-16, which now dominates the fighter-interceptor market, in a computer-simulated...
...fellow who, but for the grace of poor vision and ten thumbs, a trick knee and an unhealthy dependence on bonded bourbon, might have made a fighter pilot. Lately he has been captivated and obsessed by some of the slickest ads in print, the ones depicting the F-20 Tigershark poised on a liquid mirror out in the Mojave Desert. What is it about this bird, he wonders, that has caused it to be acclaimed in the Atlantic, praised by 60 Minutes, touted by ever skeptical Ted Koppel? Not since laying eyes on a '54 T-Bird...
...Dynamics and the F-16; past Fairchild Republic and its T-46 trainers; past the Army, testing Black Hawk helicopters; past McDonnell Douglas, at work on the F-15; and just beyond the Air Force and its antisatellite system; and comes to rest outside the Northrop hangar, wherein the Tigershark resides. Our innocent is not met by a sales rep; rather, Roy Martin, a test pilot, blond and angular and wearing a jumpsuit crosshatched by so many zippered pockets that he could carry a disassembled jeep around in his coveralls, takes the shopper...
...this information to guide his presentation. After all, one should never bore the experienced with a nuts-and-bolts primer. The visitor answers negatively, tugs a forelock and asks how fast the F-20 accelerates from zero to 60. (Two and one-half minutes after a cold start, the Tigershark is flying at 38,000 ft., 13 miles from its base, the plane's radar locked in on an intruder 63 miles away.) The nuts-and-bolts primer it will...
...biggest gambles in the history of the defense business came to an inglorious end last week. Los Angeles-based Northrop said it would halt development of the F-20 fighter jet after spending $1.2 billion on the still experimental plane, known as the Tigershark, over the past eight years. The decision came two weeks after the Air Force rejected a proposed contract to buy 270 F-20s for $3.5 billion. The Pentagon decided instead to upgrade an equally large fleet of General Dynamics F-16s at a cost of $2.3 million each -- only one-fifth...