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Paul Krumrei
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Yup, the Lighting II. www.af.mil
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Well Paul, that's what the gub'mint has come up with, now it'll be interesting
to see what the operational crews name her! Time will tell....

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I guess they didn’t like my ideas…

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how original>>>>> zzzzzzzzzzzzz snore!!! no creativity anymore.... a poet & didn't know it!! :vom:

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Yeah why cant they come up with something orriginal? Just makes me not like it more.

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How much will the price go up, now that it has a name? :roll:
I would have named it after the first flight.

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"Lightning II" wasn't good enough for the Lockheed F-22......................... :?

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plain disappointing, & so un-original it's practically lame. they merely copped out, took the easy road & went to a 5 martini lunch on our dime. how they could take a state of the art futuristic weapon system & apply a respectable, but thoroughly recycled name is just throwing in the towel toward the road of least resistance. they should have consulted / used a real high tech system for finding names & definitions........ it's called webster's dictionary!!

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Don Martin wrote:
"Lightning II" wasn't good enough for the Lockheed F-22......................... :?

Atleast the 22's name is original

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Sorry guys-----------I like Lightning II---------it will always bring to mind the original Lightning, and that is a good thing!!
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I understand that there was some discussion of naming the new fighter the "Spitfire II", so does anyone know for certain which aircraft they consider to be the "Lightning I"?

This one?

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good question!!! but the jet version never earned the honor of the new namesake in my opinion.

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but the jet version never earned the honor of the new namesake in my opinion


Agreed it never went into combat, but it still holds a few time to height records and regularly used to whip some F-16 ass!

As for Spitfire II!!!! Over my cold dead body.
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I still like Buzzard. :lol: :lol:
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It shoulda been called

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