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From: jfb@usgp1.ih.att.com (Joe Baugher)
Subject: New Fighter Series--"F-13"
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Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 03:34:56 GMT
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In the new fighter designation scheme, the designation F-13 was never 
applied, apparently for superstitious reasons.  There actually WAS an
F-13, but this was a photographic reconnaissance version of the B-29
Superfortress of World War 2.  


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