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To: mazda77

Certain designs are so good, they just keep going and going. The A-10 is one. The B-52 is another enduring design. I’m sure there are others.


7 posted on 12/23/2016 5:59:52 AM PST by Flick Lives (Les Deplorables Triumphant)
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To: Flick Lives

>>Certain designs are so good, they just keep going and going. The A-10 is one. The B-52 is another enduring design. I’m sure there are others.<<

F-16.

And the SR-71 will NEVER be bested. It was the edge of physics. Just no mission for it to justify the expense.


14 posted on 12/23/2016 6:13:05 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Merry Christmas -- God bless us, every one)
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To: Flick Lives
Certain designs are so good, they just keep going and going. The A-10 is one. The B-52 is another enduring design. I’m sure there are others.

DC-3. Known as the C-47 in its military incarnation. About 400 of them are still flying, seventy years after WWII.
55 posted on 12/23/2016 9:11:03 AM PST by Colinsky
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