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To: VMI70

The Flying Tiger has a history with the CIA. Perhaps someone on FR could fill us in on that history.

BTW, the dark under belly of AF-1 may have some of that flat-black stealth paint that might protect the plane from surface to air missiles.


112 posted on 06/14/2019 10:46:13 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane

“Flying Tiger has a history with the CIA.”

I don’t know about Flying Tiger, but I do know that the CIA was heavily invested in Air America.

“...flat-black stealth paint that might protect the plane from surface to air missiles.”

I wouldn’t think that radar absorbent coatings would be very effective as there are 4 gigantic radar reflectors, the engines, hanging off the wings.


127 posted on 06/14/2019 12:21:34 PM PDT by VMI70
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