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Experimental & Prototype U.S. Air Force Jet Fighters April 4 2012 at 8:50 AM		Tommy H. Thomason (Login tailspinturtle) HyperScale Forums from IP address 76.218.232.12
Response to Hey Tommy, while you're here-

http://www.amazon.com/Experimental-Prototype-Force-Fighters-Specialty/dp/1580071112 However, I don't have it so I can't say for sure that it meets your requirement. I don't know that I've ever seen a comparison of the services' accident rates or that they are directly comparable during that era. Certainly the Air Force had nothing as risky as operation to and from aircraft carriers, introducing a degree of difficulty difference for starters. I'm pretty sure that the Air Force procurement agency was more receptive initially to jet fighter introduction than BuAer as a whole. My monograph on the F7U-1 will cover more of this, contrasting its development and early operational history with that of the F-86. In my research and analysis for Naval Air Superiority, I found it interesting that in first 15 years or so of jet fighter development, the Navy and the Air Force both initiated about 24 jet fighter programs and 15 reached operational status. The reasons for the failures were similar. Up until the X-15, the services engaged in parallel research airplane programs and came up with basically the same lessons learned, ranging from the need for ejection seats and pressurization, the benefits and drawbacks of swept wings, design and system requirements for transonic and supersonic flight, etc.

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