Indeed, John!
Not to mention that it was vastly safer for most AFTS students than the lovely Gnat (no STUPRECC-ing) - and a darn sight easier to maintain!
Although with its frankly appalling compass system (in pre-AHARS days) and greater fuel capacity, it had vastly greater potential for getting its pilots utterly lost in the wildest parts of Viet-Taff.
And WHY no offset-TACAN? What idiot allowed that....
