In article ,
"Gord Beaman" ) wrote:

Chad Irby wrote:

Those drag changes don't make for a 33% change in performance. The
problems with the F-16 were over a 5% to 10% range, and that was between
the design and the flying airframe, not between the early flying
airframe and the production model.

This sounds much more reasonable. While I'm certainly no expert
in these matters I'd be pretty surprised if these highly paid
engineers and designers made such a horrendous error as to result
in a one third higher than expected drag figure.

Tell it to Fred. He's magically sure that the F-35 is going to be a
disaster of Biblical proportions...

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