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Advanced Tiger Upgrading the F-5: Best of Aviation Series - F-5 Tiger II
The Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter is a small, highly aerodynamic and maneuverable jet which was built around two compact and high thrust General Electric J85 engines. The F-5 was designed from the ...
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Rare Canadair CF-5D Freedom Fighter Listed for Sale
In 1965, the Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter was selected, with Canadair producing the CF-5 under license. The CF-5 featured Canadian-built Orenda J85 engines with increased thrust, providing ...
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A Most Unwanted Plane: Canada’s CF-5 Freedom Fighter
The Freedom Fighter was a licensed-built version of the American Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter. Canada introduced the CF-5 to their air force in 1968 as a lightweight, supersonic fighter designed ...
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The F-5A Freedom Fighter: When Simplicity Met Lethality
One such oft-forgotten warplane was the Northrop YF-5A Freedom Fighter. This warplane can trace its roots back to Northrop’s N-156F, which was itself an attempt to meet the United States Air ...
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Why Did a South Vietnamese Fighter Bomb the South Vietnamese Presidential Palace?
Near the end of the war in Vietnam, an American-built Northrop F-5 fighter in South Vietnamese markings dropped bombs on the South Vietnamese Independence ...