On Sat, 6 Mar 2004 07:10:23 -0000, "Ian" wrote:
snip a quite sensible discussion

You know what, I've flown british jets and with british pilots, and
they both suck. i would take a us made jet anytime over the
eurofighter (i remember when it was called the eurofighter 90 lol) oh
yeah, i'm not american either. give me a us made jet anytime. i'll eat
my own crap when a typhoon wins over an f-22 in a neutral setup bfm
engagement.

When was it ever called Eurofighter 90? The technology demonstrator only
flew for the first time on 8th Aug 86 (and incidently displayed at the
Farnborough Airshow a fortnight later). So to turn round a tech dem into a
full production aircraft in 4 years is pushing it - for any country/company
in the world!

I think he may be refering to an old German design called the TFK-90
in the 1980, some of the design features was used on the ECA about 4
years later, things like a twin tail were dropped among several
thousand other things... Note 1992 is the start of the Eurofighter
2000 project that is now the Eurofighter Typhoon...


I suppose in his world the F-22 was called the F-15 before its make
over ;-)

Cheers


John Cook

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