What You Need to Know: The Northrop F-20 Tigershark is celebrated as the “greatest fighter never built.” Originating from the F-5E Tiger II, the F-20 offered cutting-edge avionics, a GE F404 ...

That nomenclature gaffe aside, there was an actual fighter plane called the Tigershark, and it wasn’t a WWII prop job, but rather a sleek and supersonic Cold War-era jet fighter. The F-20 began ...

Looking at the F-20 Tigershark, it's hard to believe this sleek fighter jet is almost half a century old. Indeed, it was cutting-edge for its time, and it took creator Northrop over seven years to ...

Lately he has been captivated and obsessed by some of the slickest ads in print, the ones depicting the F-20 Tigershark poised on a liquid mirror out in the Mojave Desert. What is it about this ...

The first flight of the Northrop F-5G Tigershark – soon rebranded as the F-20 – was featured on our cover in September, 1982, attaining a speed of Mach 1.04 during a 40 min. flight from ...