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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Artie Bob" data-source="post: 38511" data-attributes="member: 1004"><p>"There's a story that keeps popping up that the F-117 was called the F-117 because of a misprint in one of the manuals, and rather than reprint all the manuals they decided it would be cheaper to make it stick."  AW&ST published an item back one or two years, confirming the existence of the F-113 and "other" succeeding numbers in the sequence assigned to foreign test aircraft and protoypes.  Sorry, no photos and very sketchy details.  The inference was that the sequence was still continuing, so who knows?  Perhaps we shall one day see a YF-120 or XF-121.</p></blockquote><p></p>