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To: servo1969

If you’re faster than a speeding bullet, maybe you shouldn’t be firing forwards?


3 posted on 04/10/2019 1:22:07 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: proxy_user; servo1969; Tenacious 1

“If you’re faster than a speeding bullet, maybe you shouldn’t be firing forwards?”

In straight and level flight, perhaps, but Colonel Phil “Hands” Handley achieved a super sonic air-to-air gun kill in his F-4 during the Vietnam War.

“firing in a very high G turn?”

Hands was in a high-G turn, Mach 1.2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPLZazga4RM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO3nAqF2Y8U

Sadly, Hands passed about a month ago. True conservative patriot and hero. . .and published commentator on national security issues. . .

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=wVmuXOShAbHk9AP1iqOICQ&q=%22phil+%22Hands%22+Handley&btnK=Google+Search&oq=%22phil+%22Hands%22+Handley&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0.28265.38976..47682...0.0..0.127.2526.0j22......0....1..gws-wiz.....0..0i131j0i131i70i253j0i10j0i22i30._M8pskCLFPA

I was lucky to be a close friend of his. He will be missed.


20 posted on 04/10/2019 2:09:09 PM PDT by Hulka
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