Post all the F-5 pictures

"You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much" (youcantellafinn) 09/30/2014 at 16:25 • Filed to: planelopnik, f-5

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And pictures of its offspring. The F-5 certainly did have some successful derivatives, along with a few strange ones. I'm looking at you Iran and your funky unlicensed copies and derivations of the F-5.

My citroen won't start > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 09/30/2014 at 16:29

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Ok.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > My citroen won't start 09/30/2014 at 16:32

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CKeffer > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 09/30/2014 at 16:33

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If you're wanting F-5 pics, why ar you mixing F/A-18's in there too? They're both awesome, don't get me wrong, I'm just a tad confused.

The X-29 has always been my favorite F-5 derivative.

ttyymmnn > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 09/30/2014 at 16:36

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Only a small sampling of my collection.....

My citroen won't start > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 09/30/2014 at 16:36

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You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > CKeffer 09/30/2014 at 16:40

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The F/A-18 was a Navy development of the YF-17 which lost the Air Forces LWF competition . The YF-17 program used major bits of the F-5 airframe, so the F/A-18 is indeed a direct descendant of the F-5.

My personal favorite, and possibly my favorite jet fighter of all time is the F-20 Tigershark. The proportions and lines are just classic.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > ttyymmnn 09/30/2014 at 16:41

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Those are some good ones.

Racescort666 > CKeffer 09/30/2014 at 16:41

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Came here to post this. My favorite as well. Probably my favorite X plane and that includes the X-1, X-15, X-51. Forward canards, forward swept wings, supersonic, tons of directional stiffness composites, multiple fly-by-wire systems (digital AND analog). This thing was a serious feat of engineering. They even considered thrust vectoring on it which would have given it up to or possibly more than 80 degrees angle of attack with stable flight.

CKeffer > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 09/30/2014 at 16:42

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I actually did not know this. Fascinating, thank you for letting me know!

Racescort666 > CKeffer 09/30/2014 at 16:43

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High AOA awesomeness.

CAR_IS_MI > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 09/30/2014 at 16:43

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Ntovorni > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 09/30/2014 at 16:44

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Side note: She's so damn pretty.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > CKeffer 09/30/2014 at 16:45

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You're welcome. It is surprising how many different planes the F-5 played a big part in. Even though the F-5 itself wasn't super successful it directly lead to the T-38 and the F/A-18, possibly the most successful supersonic trainer and Navy fighter/attack aircraft ever.

The "F-18" in NASA/Navy livery is actually the YF-17.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > Ntovorni 09/30/2014 at 16:46

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Yes she is.

Racescort666 > ttyymmnn 09/30/2014 at 16:47

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Beat me to the T-38. I got trounced by CKeffer on the X-29.

lone_liberal > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 09/30/2014 at 16:47

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When I was in the Navy I was stationed on a base in Spain that was primarily a Spanish Air Force base and at the time they flew F5s. I saw a lot of those things flying around and always thought the US should have made better use of them.

CKeffer > Racescort666 09/30/2014 at 16:47

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Yup, and all this back in the mid 80's when computing was still fairly primitive. Not nearly as much so as 10-20 years prior, mind you, but still vastly so compared to where we are now. It took some serious balls to step into the cockpit of that thing (or any other x-plane for that matter), and say, yeah I can keep this thing in the air!

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > lone_liberal 09/30/2014 at 16:51

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From everything I've ever read about them they were sweet flying and capable little planes. It is a shame that they never saw much use in the U.S. inventory. I really wish the F-20 would have been successful. That is one of my favorite airplanes and by all accounts it was also a very good airplane that would have had low operational costs to go with it.

CKeffer > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 09/30/2014 at 16:53

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Living in Houston, I'm very well aware of the T-38's relation to the F-5, since I see them all the time, and the visual like is incredibly clear. And I figured the other one was a development or test model since there are a few differences between it and the production F/A-18's.

user314 > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 09/30/2014 at 16:55

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Mmmm, F-5 Aggressor schemes....

ttyymmnn > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 09/30/2014 at 17:04

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I've got a bunch more. I've been collecting airplane, car and space pictures for years. My wallpapers/screensaver folder has almost 3000 images in it now. Here are a few more (if Kinja stops being a pain in the ass):

Nibbles > CAR_IS_MI 09/30/2014 at 17:16

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Beat me to it

Dunnik > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 09/30/2014 at 19:10

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No F-5 thread would be complete without mention of the CF-5 Freedom Fighter.

Made under license by Canadair with some home-baked mods, including shorter take-off, GE turbofans built under lic. by Orenda. As a plane designed with the budget export customer in mind, the CF-5 was a bit of a downgrade, but proved useful as primary jet trainers and in the aggressor training role. In theory they could also be used for light ground-attack and recon.

Many Canadair-built CF-5's were later exported to other countries looking for a cheap, light, fast and capable twin-engine jet fighter, the Netherlands and Venezuela among them.

Some are still in first-line service today. Canada gave a handful of free CF-5s to the African nation of Botswana along with some training and parts.

bubblestheturtle > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 09/30/2014 at 20:39

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Unaware the Iranian Blue Angels flew the F-5.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > CKeffer 09/30/2014 at 20:55

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I didn't know that either. Now I do!

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > bubblestheturtle 09/30/2014 at 22:57

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That one screwed with my head. At first glance I totally thought it was the Blue Angels livery. Then I noticed it said air force, then I realized it looked like a bad knockoff of an F-18 and finally I read the caption and found out it was an Iranian derivative of the F-5.

ttyymmnn > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 10/01/2014 at 00:25

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I found another one for you, courtesy of the USAF.

A T-38 Talon flies in formation with the B-2 Spirit of South Carolina during a training mission over Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., Feb. 20, 2014.

http://www.af.mil/News/Photos.as…

burntartichoke > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 10/07/2014 at 15:25

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How did I miss this when it was originally posted!?!?

Some NASA T-38s training

And some playing

The not so new revised T-38N intake and why it was done

http://www.techbriefs.com/componen/conte…

Some Norwegians at a Tiger Meet

How about a MiG-28?

And of course,the ugly duckling

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > burntartichoke 10/07/2014 at 16:36

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That DARPA sonic boom testbed is just too goofy looking. I think it worked, but who would willingly fly in something so goofy.

/Really hope you don't work for NASA/DARPA on their sonic boom reduction programs. I would be embarrassed for a minute or two if I found out this was your design.

burntartichoke > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 10/07/2014 at 16:48

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LOL I wish I could take credit for it but sadly no, so have no fear, I too think that it looks a bit odd. NASA has a way of coming up with "interesting" sonic boom mitigation methods.