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	YF-17 "Cobra"
		YF-17 "Cobra" Number 1 is at the Western Museum of Flight, Hawthorne, California.
		YF-17 "Cobra" Number 1 made its first flight at Edwards AFB on 9 June 1974 with Northrop Chief Test Pilot Hank Chouteau at the controls.
		Between 1980-1985, both the YF-17 "Cobras" remained in a preservative cocoon state at the Northrop Palmdale, California facility.
	www.wmof.com /yf17.htm (192 words)

	YF-17 "COBRA"
		Both YF-17 "Cobra" prototypes were employed as F-18 demonstration vehicles in the 1976-1979 time period.
		YF-17 "Cobra" Number 1 has been placed on loan by the USMC to the Western Museum of Flight for restoration and long term static display.
		For many, the FY-17 Cobra is a little-known footnote in late 20th century military aircraft history.
	paginas.terra.com.br /lazer/fslucariny/cobra.htm (759 words)

	YF-17 Cobra
		The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet traces its direct ancestry to the Northrop Cobra, a twin engine multimission fighter design developed for the export market in the late 1960s.
		The two contractors were given creative freedom to build their own vision of a lightweight air superiority fighter, with only a limited number of specified performance goals.
		The Air Force selected the F-16 to be produced for the Tactical Air Command, and the Navy was directed by Congress to base the VFAX on either the YF-16 or YF-17 designs.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/aircraft/f-17.htm (1216 words)

	YF-17 Cobra - Military Aircraft
		The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet traces its direct ancestry to the Northrop Cobra, a twin engine multimission fighter design developed for the export market in the late 1960s.
		The two contractors were given creative freedom to build their own vision of a lightweight air superiority fighter, with only a limited number of specified performance goals.
		The Air Force selected the F-16 to be produced for the Tactical Air Command, and the Navy was directed by Congress to base the VFAX on either the YF-16 or YF-17 designs.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ac/f-17.htm (502 words)

	F/A-18 Hornet
		The F/A-18 Hornet evolved from the Northrop YF-17 "Cobra", which was rejected by the US Air Force in favour of the YF-16.
		The B model is used primarily for training while the D model is the current Navy aircraft for attack, tactical air control, forward air control, and reconnaissance operations.
		The latest models, the E and F were rolled out at McDonnell Douglas on 17 September 1995 and are currently undergoing tests at the Patuxent Naval Air Station in Maryland.
	www.geocities.com /CapeCanaveral/Hall/5777/hornet.html (533 words)

	Northrop YF-17 Cobra
		Potential customers for the P-530 Cobra were Western nations who wanted and who could afford a fighter aircraft with a higher performance than that of the F-5A/B. Prime targets were every user of the F-104 Starfighter, as well as several Middle Eastern countries, including Iran.
		Externally, the P-600 was almost identical to the 1971 form of the P-530 Cobra.
		However, the P-530 had always been envisaged as a multi-role aircraft with a significant air-to-ground capability, whereas the P-600 was to be purely an air-to-air demonstrator with no armament except a gun and a Sidewinder missile at each wingtip.
	home.att.net /~jbaugher4/f17.html (3425 words)

	Early Development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Item four equates to good performance in the pitch and roll planes and requires a small wing and a low aspect ratio, the idea is to create a good compromise between the two conflicting specifications (Spick, p.5).
		By 1970, the P-530 mid-wing, twin engine "Cobra", looked much the same as the as the F/A-18 does today, and in 1971 and 1972, Northrop commissioned teams for a single engine design variant, the P-610 and an additional twin engine variant, designated P-600.
		In the air, using fly-by-wire technology, the YF-17 "Cobra" performed well, demonstrating a top speed of Mach 1.95, a load factor of 9.4g, a rate of climb exceeding 50,000 feet/min., and a controllable low speed of 20 knots (37KPH).
	www.it.murdoch.edu.au /units/ICT108/b108ftp/old_projects/TerryLourensz/early.html (1053 words)

	YF-17 Cobra - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In a 1975 fly-off, the Cobra competed against the General Dynamics F-16 Falcon and pilots reported very similar capabilities.
		General Dynamics had gambled by gearing up for immediate production, and so won the contract.
		Though not selected by the Air Force, Northrop teamed up with McDonnell Douglas and developed the F-17 Cobra into the U.S. Navy F/A-18 Hornet.
	open-encyclopedia.com /YF-17 (130 words)

	F-16 Fighting Falcon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The F-16 originates in a set of specifications the United States Department of Defense issued in 1974.
		Two companies were chosen during the concept stage: General Dynamics with the YF-16 design and Northrop with a design which bore the name YF-17 Cobra.
		The F-16 was chosen from the two prototypes; however the two-engined YF-17 was not abandoned and later on became the F/A-18 Hornet.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/f/f_/f_16_fighting_falcon.html (689 words)

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