The Northrop YF-17 (nicknamed "Cobra") was a prototype lightweight fighter aircraft designed by Northrop aviation for the United States Air Force's Lightweight...

The Northrop/McDonnell Douglas YF-23 is an American single-seat, twin-engine, supersonic stealth fighter aircraft technology demonstrator designed for...

series of design studies which resulted in the Northrop YF-17 and the F/A-18 naval fighter aircraft. The Northrop F-20 Tigershark was an advanced variant to...

Nieuport 17, a French WWI fighter Northrop YF-17 Cobra, an American prototype fighter jet Potez 17, a French reconnaissance aircraft Saab 17, a Swedish...

Northrop Corporation was an American aircraft manufacturer from its formation in 1939 until its 1994 merger with Grumman to form Northrop Grumman. The...

demonstration/validation phase of the competition. The YF-22 won the contest against the Northrop YF-23 for full-scale development, and the design was developed...

Eagle. It resulted in the development of the General Dynamics YF-16 and Northrop YF-17. Late in the program, in 1974, with the promise of European sales...

000 lbf class. It was designed for the Northrop P-530 Cobra but its initial application was the Northrop YF-17 entry in the Lightweight Fighter (LWF)...

Pakistan Northrop YF-17, an American prototype fighter aircraft of the 1970s For the F17 Bandy World Championship, see Bandy World Championship G-17 Fluorine-17...

generally not considered part of the series. Thus it does not include the Northrop YF-17, which later evolved into the F/A-18. The designations F-13 and F-19...

The Northrop A-17, also known as the Northrop Model 8, a development of the Northrop Gamma 2F model, was a two-seat, single-engine, monoplane, attack bomber...

The Northrop Tacit Blue was a technology demonstrator aircraft created to demonstrate that a low-observable stealth surveillance aircraft with a...

second Northrop YF-23 Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) 5th generation stealth fighter demonstrator. Also on display is the first Northrop YF-17 Cobra,...

distinctive leading edge root extension, or LERX). Later flying as the Northrop YF-17 "Cobra", it competed in the United States Air Force's Lightweight Fighter...

Fighting Falcon, but lost to the Northrop/McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet. Following the YF-16's victory over the Northrop YF-17 for the U.S. Air Force's Air...

designation). Designed by McDonnell Douglas and Northrop, the F/A-18 was derived from the latter's YF-17 in the 1970s for use by the United States Navy...

& Whitney F100 powered YF-16. For the F/A-18, GE based the F404 on the YJ101 engine they had developed for the Northrop YF-17, enlarging the bypass ratio...

General Dynamics designed the successful F-16. Its competitor, the Northrop YF-17, led to the successful McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet Navy fighter...

over the years." Aviation portal Canada portal Related development Northrop YF-17 McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet Aircraft...

(China). Dassault Mirage G (1971) (France). Sukhoi T-4 (1972) (USSR). Northrop YF-17 (1974) (USA). Dassault Mirage 4000 (1979) (France). General Dynamics...

plead guilty in 1976 and would hang himself in prison in 1982. The Northrop YF-17 prototype jet fighter aircraft made its first test flight, departing...

prototype first flew on 9 March 1974. Both YF-16 prototypes participated in the flyoff against the Northrop YF-17 prototypes, with the F-16 winning the Air...

Royal Navy destroyer Otokar Cobra, a Turkish light armoured vehicle Northrop YF-17, a fighter aircraft prototype nicknamed Cobra USS Cobra (SP-626), a...

the original American General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon and the Northrop YF-17 that competed for the Lightweight Fighter contract, which had the goal...

series of light-weight fighter aircraft such as the F-5, YF-17, and F-20. However, Northrop was best known for it experimental flying wing aircraft, the...

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followed by the first flights of Northrop's YF-17 prototypes on 9 June and 21 August 1974, respectively. During the fly-off, the YF-16s completed 330 sorties...

ISBN 978-0-8393-6175-6 Goodall, James C. "The Northrop B-2A Stealth Bomber." America's Stealth Fighters and Bombers: B-2, F-117, YF-22, and YF-23. St. Paul, Minnesota: MBI...

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Fighter" program and the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon and Northrop YF-17. The PFI fighter was assigned to Sukhoi, resulting in the Sukhoi Su-27...