"Greg Hennessy" wrote in message
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On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 21:27:32 GMT, Ed Rasimus wrote:


And, the cockpit ergonomics were decidely sub-standard. I only offer
this opinion as a former Northrop worker with a couple of hundred
hours in the F-20 cockpit of the dome, although not always with F-20
flight parameters as the operating model.

I always thought Northrop missed a chance with the F-20. Rather than
shoehorning a f404 in to an f-5 airframe (it's still an F-5 but quicker).

An F5 sized airframe with an F16-XL style cranked arrow wing and large
flat
underside would have given say 80-90% of the gripens performance 15 years
ahead of its time.


And required a lot of expensive R&D

Keith