Text 24898, 35 rader
Skriven 2008-12-11 14:26:46 av Ross Cassell (1:123/456)
  Kommentar till text 24881 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
Ärende: Attitudes (was: The New
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Hello Ward!

11 Dec 08 12:48, you wrote to Lee Lofaso:

 WD> Napoleon had a unit of Russian attack-helicopters which were about to
 WD> lift-off. The weather was extremely bad that day with thunderstorms
 WD> etc and the flight of helicopters was caught in an electric storm
 WD> which made them flash forward to Dec.7 1941 where they ended-up at
 WD> Pearl Harbor and sank the American battle-shipfleet.

No The Movie Final Countdown was produced in 1979-80, and it didnt involve a
uppity french man.

We all know that Martin Sheen and Kirk Douglas rode the USS Nimitz back in time
to nearly thwart the Japanese attack!

But seriously, that movie was very compelling, despite being pure science
fiction as to its premise. That a single modern carrier battle group contains
in conventional weaponry alone much more firepower than the militaries of
entire nations back then.

If you saw the movie, I liked the part when they had a patrol of F-14's observe
2 Japanese Zero's attack a American yacht, the pilots asked if they could
intervene and were told they couldnt open fire, so they did the next best
thing, they buzzed the 2 zero's on full after burner, had them fluttering like
pices of paper in the wind.


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