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Re[113][111]: no subject Name: phoenix Date: 2004/05/28(Fri) 22:03  No.115   [Reply]
Hi Mario,
I've taken a photo of the Hornet model, but it's about 1.2Mega-bytes.
If that's all right, I'll send you it.
But it's not very good.

About the F-2.
It is a sort of a Japanese-version of the F-16.
The F-16 was one of the nominees for the F-1 successor, but Japan was not satisfied with any of the current aircrafts.
So, they decided to develop a new one. But that really isn't fair, because that is compairing an airplane that hasn't even flown with current aircrafts.
And the US goverment partially forced Japan to use one of theirs as the model for that new fighter. That happened to be the F-16.
So the new fighter, F-2, turned out to be very similar with the F-16.
But the wing and horizontal stabilizer spread has increased, for manueverability(is the spelling OK?).
Also, the computers and stuff are newer.
Not only that, the structure and stuff is totally different.
So that means the F-2 looks very much like the F-16, but the insides are a totally different airplane.

Hope the helps,
phoenix