hey buddy - it takes engineering talent to remove the single verticle tail and replace it with 2 similar ones and tilt them outward in F18 fashion. It would involve wrenches and bolts and nuts and stuff. What is it, lefty loosely - righty tighty. Not to mention bolt/nut torque spects. And how Iran didn't put a man on the moon first I will never know.
Do you know how hard it is in Iran to come by a "Janes All the Worlds Combat Aircraft, VOL 2" that clearly shows a pic of an F18 stab outward tilt?
Not to mention it can be a real bitch to paint your "improved F5" similar to the Blue Angles. Iran is comming to an airshow near you soon.
instead of useing computaional fluid dynamics applied to kutta-jukowski theory to model flow around the aft section they simpily consulted ALAH or whoever it is they pray too. He told them as long as the mean aspect ratio of the left stab was the square root of the combined weight of the 72 virgins that can fit in the cockpit of the unmodified F-5 that the new design would easily out fly anything from the F22 on down.
super duper F-5 pics:
http://www.airliners.net/search/pho...rop F-5E Saeghe (Thunder)&distinct_entry=true
other Iran air force equip pics:
http://www.airliners.net/search/pho...limit=15&sort_order=photo_id+DESC&nr_pages=12
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