Summary: Among aviation enthusiasts, Northrop Grumman's YF-23 has achieved ... to have better range than the YF-22. But the YF-23 lost the ATF bid, of course. Not necessarily because of the ...

When the Air Force commissioned the ATF, they wanted to bring the ... the Pentagon ultimately choosing the Lockheed YF-22 over the Northrop YF-23: these were supposed to be fifth-generation ...

Yeager was also a test pilot for the ATF program to develop America’s fifth-generation stealth warplane—a competition between the Lockheed Martin YF-22 and the Northrop YF-23. Of course ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Ultimately, the Air Force ended up with an excellent plane with the Raptor—but both the YF-22 and YF-23 were outstanding designs. Had Northrop won the ...