Lockheed Lancer?

Brendan Grace wrote:
"Bjørnar Bolsøy" wrote in message
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"Brendan Grace" wrote in
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Does anyone have any links or info on the Lockheed effort back
in the 70s for competition with the YF-16 and YF-17? It was
a derivative of the F-104 but I don't know what happened to the
program or even if a mock up was built.

Google never lets us down.


http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
&q=lockheed+lancer


Regards...

Actually Google does let us down. Note that none of the links
supplied give much information or any pictures.

Try these (which I found from a similar Google search)

For text:
http://home.att.net/~jbaugher1/f104_34.html

For pictures:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita.../x-27-pics.htm

Note that in the first picture, the airplane with the rectangular inlets is
a mockup of the X-27, not the CL-1200 Lancer. The other two are the Lancer
itself. It took me a second to spot the differences from the F-104 -- note
the wing and tail positions.

I have to say the original Starfighter looks nicer.



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