F-52 jets ?

[Michel Van]

According to this video the USA sell fiftytwo F-35 and F-52 jets to Norway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0g2Zf_engs

I never hear of F-52 before, except Trump is fan of video game "Call of Duty"

 

[Arjen]

A belated contract for this little beauty?
Image from: https://oppositelock.kinja.com/the-one-time-the-air-force-canceled-a-propeller-powered-1749003276

 

[martinbayer]

According to this video the USA sell fiftytwo F-35 and F-52 jets to Norway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0g2Zf_engs

I never hear of F-52 before, except Trump is fan of video game "Call of Duty"

Par for the course, so to speak.

Martin

 

[Deltafan]

Maybe too, Donald want to sale old french comics to Norway :

 

[jeffb]

Cute.
Is it a swing-wing, 2 seat version of a YF-23?

 

[flateric]

F-52 full-scale mockup

 

[Arjen]

That's the one. Norwegian Blue. Pining for the fjords.

 

[Michel Van]

and the Flight-simulator for F-52 !
I think the Norwegian Pilots will very happy with it...

 

[Archibald]

Fear the mighty F-52 COVFEFE

 

[Avimimus]

I think he just mixed up the designation of the aircraft and the number of the aircraft

 

[Michel Van]

I think he just mixed up the designation of the aircraft and the number of the aircraft

yeah, He as the habit to do his speech spontaneous and unscripted or twitter with the grammar correction off...

Stephen Colbert on the case
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzpWKPareg8

 

[The Wave]

It'd be interesting to see the members on the forum come up with/draw their own design of this new F-52 fighter.

 

[Avimimus]

It'd be interesting to see the members on the forum come up with/draw their own design of this new F-52 fighter.

Now that is a thought! My first assumption was actually a B-52 arsenal plane!

 

[Orionblamblam]

It'd be interesting to see the members on the forum come up with/draw their own design of this new F-52 fighter.

There would be two ways to go, it seems:
1: Assume that we start with the F-35, and progress the way fighters have historically, until recently, progressed: there'd be the F-36 (the unsuccessful Boeing design) then the F-37, F-38, etc. until we get to the F-52. At recent rates of progress, the F-52 would probably be a design from the 25th century, equipped with impulse engines, a quantum slipstream drive and anti-Goa'uld energy weapons.
2: Assume that the USAF just skips over a bunch of designations, as they went from the F-18 to the F-22 to the F-35. The F-52 would thus be likely not far down the line... the F-40, say, would be some slick optionally manned design made out of advanced composites, to a stealthy configuration; the F-45 would be an economical UCAV with a simple turboprop engine; the F-52 would be a repurposed Toy-R-Us quadrotor drone carrying three ounces of kitchen-made semtex.

 

[Rickshaw]

Who remembers how the SR-71 got it's designation?

I can imagine the USAF is presently scrambling to redesignate it's next fighter the F-52...

 

[Foo Fighter]

As long as there is a 52 somewhere in there it is probably OK, or something. As long as it is not the latest type f.52 toaster, there is a heck of a wait for those.

 

[jstar]

Who remembers how the SR-71 got it's designation?

I can imagine the USAF is presently scrambling to redesignate it's next fighter the F-52...

Funny, I told my wife the SR-71 story when I mentioned the F-52 'alternative designation'.

 

[TomS]

Who remembers how the SR-71 got it's designation?

I can imagine the USAF is presently scrambling to redesignate it's next fighter the F-52...

The SR-71 got its designation deliberately -- Curtis LeMay changed it in the text Johnson was given.

The better example would the the F-35, where the General in charge screwed up in a press conference and there was a real behind-the-scenes effort to fix it, to no avail. Lockheed was so sure it was going to be the F-24 that their website actually said "F-24 JSF" for about two days after the selection announcement.

 

[Rickshaw]

Who remembers how the SR-71 got it's designation?

I can imagine the USAF is presently scrambling to redesignate it's next fighter the F-52...

The SR-71 got its designation deliberately -- Curtis LeMay changed it in the text Johnson was given.

Fair enough. Still got changed though. So, it was LeMay's fault, not LBJ's.

 

[Colonial-Marine]

Who remembers how the SR-71 got it's designation?

I can imagine the USAF is presently scrambling to redesignate it's next fighter the F-52...

The SR-71 got its designation deliberately -- Curtis LeMay changed it in the text Johnson was given.

The better example would the the F-35, where the General in charge screwed up in a press conference and there was a real behind-the-scenes effort to fix it, to no avail. Lockheed was so sure it was going to be the F-24 that their website actually said "F-24 JSF" for about two days after the selection announcement.

I have heard this story before and it sounds believable enough but unfortunately I've never seen proof of it. Does anybody have a screen capture of the website saying F-24?

 

[Dragon029]

Video of the press conference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHbh_P30gZs

Official transcript: http://archive.defense.gov/Transcripts/Transcript.aspx?TranscriptID=2186

 

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