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Skriven 2005-04-17 03:29:06 av Gary Braswell (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 11659 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: GASOLENE PRICES ???
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Ed Hulett -> Gary Braswell wrote:

 EH> Gary Braswell -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 GB>> Ed Hulett -> VERN HUMPHREY wrote:

 EH>>> VERN HUMPHREY -> ED HULETT wrote:
 VH>>>>>> Apparenty so -- sort of like General McPeak when he headed Air
 EH> Combat
 VH>>>>>> Command.  He told Congress that if fighter pilots didn't get real
 VH>>>>>> leather jackets, we wouldn't have good fighter pilots. :-)

 EH>>>>> Well, I have to agree with that. No pilot can fly properly
 EH> without a leather
 EH>>>>> jacket. :-)

 VH>>>> Particularly since the flight uniform includes a G-suit for fighter
 VH>>>> pilots (the ones who got the jackets) so there's no place to wear
 EH> them
 VH>>>> except on the ground. :-)

 EH>>> Well, they gotta look good while on the ground. :-)

 GB>> Oddly enough when the Skunkworks had designed the F-117 Nighthawk
 GB>> Stealth Fighter (actually a bomber) the color they found best to paint
 GB>> the plane for night operations was an off shade of light blue.

 EH> Yep. They denied its existance for years, too.

When I was a teenager in the mid-70s, a cousin and I saw a jet fly over
Beaverdam, VA that I was never able to adequately describe. That is until the
F-117 was debuted. While it was not an exact match, the diamond design was darn
close to what we saw.

Problem is, according to all I have read and heard, even the prototypes of that
jet did not exist then.

Also, a few years before the F-117 went public, a jet made an emergency landing
at Byrd Field in Richmond, VA. It taxied well away from everything and the
pilot demanded to speak to the military.

Before the TV crews made it there, a tarp was thrown over the plane. Shortly
thereafter, Green Berets were guarding the thing. I was so excited.

Years later, Ben Rich, F-117 project head talked about the very incident. A
mechanical problem forced the plane down.

It was loaded onto a wide trailer and whisked away.


 GB>> The Pentagon specified black as the color since they knew no military
 GB>> pilot would fly a beautiful, blue plane.<g>

 EH> Of course, next come the pink planes if ya let that happen. :-)

Yeah, we can't have that!

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