Fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice......DAMN!
Yes the warplane equivalent of Windows Vista.
No, not really as Vista did work. If you had said Windows 10, I would have added to your vertical line with the pointy bit on top. :-)
This airframe was totally fucked by the Marine vertical movement requirement. This necessitated the need for the large, heavy, fast rotating, pilot decapitator. This meant the fuselage had to be really wide to accommodate it and that meant lots of that nasty drag shit. The wing got mad smaller which meant heavily reduced lifting force so high G turning became an issue.
One would have thought that they would have learnt after the F-111 debacle since that was pushed by that famous military man, General Dynamics, as a one size fits all three (of the four) for the USA armed forces.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
