RC turbine NORTHROP F-20 TIGERSHARK jet SOLO Display

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RC turbine NORTHROP F-20 TIGERSHARK jet SOLO Display
Another top highlight from Airliner Treffen. This scratch built F-20 takes to the air and performs some high speed aerobatics for the appreciative crowd. Fairly sure the pilot told me his jet was powered by a Frank Turbine 220N.

Filmed by Dom Mitchell for the 'Essential RC' YouTube channel using the Panasonic AG-UX180 Pro 4K camcorder at Airliner Treffen Show in Germany.

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The Northrop F-20 Tigershark (initially F-5G) was a light fighter, designed and built by Northrop. Its development began in 1975 as a further evolution of Northrop's F-5E Tiger II, featuring a new engine that greatly improved overall performance, and a modern avionics suite including a powerful and flexible radar. Compared with the F-5E, the F-20 was much faster, gained beyond-visual-range air-to-air capability, and had a full suite of air-to-ground modes capable of firing most U.S. weapons. With these improved capabilities, the F-20 became competitive with contemporary fighter designs such as the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon, but was much less expensive to purchase and operate.

Much of the F-20's development was carried out under a US Department of Defense (DoD) project called "FX". FX sought to develop fighters that would be capable in combat with the latest Soviet aircraft, but excluding sensitive front-line technologies used by the United States Air Force's own aircraft. FX was a product of the Carter administration's military export policies, which aimed to provide foreign nations with high quality equipment without the risk of US front-line technology falling into Soviet hands. Northrop had high hopes for the F-20 in the international market, but policy changes following Ronald Reagan's election meant the F-20 had to compete for sales against aircraft like the F-16, the USAF's latest fighter design. The development program was abandoned in 1986 after three prototypes had been built and a fourth partially completed.