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January 19th 04, 03:24 PM
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"John A. Weeks III" wrote in message ... The F-35 is another violation of the numbering scheme. It should have been the XF-24 and XF-25 in the flyoff, but it somehow got slotted into the X- experimental aircraft numbering sequence as the X-32 and X-35. The X-35 won the flyoff, and was given the program name of F-35. The X-32 and X-35 were properly numbered as they were technology demonstrators, not prototypes. The winner was to have become the F-24 but a senior defense department official screwed up. 
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