Fighter Aircraft Alternates?

On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 22:27:19 -0700, hobo wrote:

In article ,
Mary Shafer wrote:


F-15E over the F-16XL, although I don't know how formal the fly off
was.

How good was the F-16xl? Some people say it would have been produced if
it could super-cruise.


The F-16XL mod started as SCAMP which IIRC stood for Supersonic Cruise
Aircraft Modification Program. And it could. . .just. It had nothing
to do with why it lost though. The F-15 was chosen because it was
two-man, bigger radar, twin engine, bigger payload, and longer range.
Not to mention the fact that at the time McD was demoing the hell out
of the "new" SAR modes of the APG-63 and it was pretty impressive.