Talk:New Fighter Aircraft Project

A disussion on merging this article with the CF-18 article is happening on Talk:CF-18 Hornet. -Fnlayson 01:33, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

"Additionally, >>T<<he F-14 almost ended up being purchased from" change to "t"georgejmyersjr (talk) 18:22, 23 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for catching that. It'd been easier to fix it than to leave the message though. ;) -Fnlayson (talk) 18:49, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Regarding the following quote: "While the negotiations with McD were continuing, Air Canada announced it was purchasing the Lockheed L-1011 to add to its wide-body fleet. This greatly angered McD CEO James Smith McDonnell, who personally threatened to cancel the entire agreement up to that point."

Air Canada had ordered the L-1011 back in the early seventies, and they entered service in 1973. This quote probably refers to Air Canada's follow-up purchase of L-1011-500s for long-haul international flights, which went into service in 1981 and presumably were purchased while the NFA contract was in contention. Either that or the original source is in error.--Voodude (talk) 18:00, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Wow, well caught. The source is not clear on the point (but is generally more interested in politics than the planes). Maury Markowitz (talk) 21:53, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

With regard to the quotation within the article: It should be noted that this represented a significant decrease in fleet numbers; there were 132 Voodoos and 200 Starfighters being replaced by less than half that number of aircraft. -- These numbers are in error. Canada never had more than 66 Voodoos at a time (the total of 132 is the total of the number of "first batch" and "second batch" aircraft in the CAF fleet). Additionally, the CF-104 fleet was substantially reduced in size around 1970, when the number of RCAF squadrons in Germany was reduced (ultimately to three squadrons -- I believe that there were nine at one point), and a fair number of CF-104s were sold off to Norway and Denmark. So, although I suspect that there were more CF-101s and CF-104s than CF-18s to replace them, the difference was no where near as drastic as the article makes out. I haven't made the change myself because I don't have precise numbers for the post-1970 CF-104 fleet at hand. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Voodude (talk • contribs) 13:39, 9 March 2009 (UTC)