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Kerry Tells of Flying a Jet Over Israel
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| 5-3-04
| NEDRA PICKLER
Posted on 05/03/2004 8:14:54 PM PDT by bellevuesbest
WASHINGTON (AP) - John Kerry wasn't kidding when he told the Anti-Defamation League that he had a different perspective on Israel. Probably no one else in the room has seen the country upside down from an Israeli Air Force jet.
Kerry said Monday that Tel Aviv kept denying his request to fly one of their planes, but that the colonel who was showing him around Israel during a 1991 visit not only got him into a trainer, but let him take the controls.
"I take it off, we go up into the sky, climb up, head down toward Aqaba," the senator said. "And I wanted to look at Aqaba, so I'm coming down over Aqaba, and I suddenly hear this voice on the intercom, and he says, 'Senator, you'd better turn faster, you're going over Egypt.'"
Kerry said the colonel then gave him permission to do "a little aerobatics" and that he made a loop at about 12,000 feet.
"To be able to come out upside down and look down and catch the horizon in back of me and see all the way down into the Sinai to the old base that had been given up, all the way across into Jordan, all the way out into the Gulf of Aqaba, and to see Israel beneath me, and the lines contained, and to see it all upside down was the perfect way to see the Middle East and Israel," he said.
TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1991; adl; aerobatics; kerry; liar; nedrafellateskerry; pilotkerry; pissant
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To: Spotsy
*I bet your husband liked Kerry's claim that he took the controls at 5 feet of the ground.*
I'm surprised you couldn't hear the laughter from here---and the expletives.
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posted on
05/04/2004 7:18:45 AM PDT
by
annyokie
(There are two sides to every argument, but I'm too busy to listen to yours.)
To: Howlin
is that the way pilots talk? No. Not hardly.
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posted on
05/04/2004 8:15:43 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,Election '04...It's going to be a bumpy ride,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
I didn't think so. What a phoney!
123
posted on
05/04/2004 8:23:37 AM PDT
by
Howlin
To: Howlin
Ping
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posted on
05/04/2004 8:46:20 AM PDT
by
Mo1
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To: bellevuesbest
Don't laugh at JF'nK this time. This is a true story. I witnessed the whole thing. Kerry didn't tell it all though. He was getting sick and I thought that he was going to chuck his lunch-right up until the Wal-Mart manager came out and unplugged Kerry's plane.
To: bellevuesbest
Oh, please ! What next, the space shuttle ? Taking off and flying an Israeli Air Force jet ? "arobatics", flying upside down over the Promise Land and flirting with Egyptian air space ? Oh, sure, like any of that is gonna happen. At those speeds he was also very close to Jordan, wonder why he didn't mention that ? Israeli pilots are skilled and gutsy, prepared to risk it all, but they aren't stoooopid. No way did that colonel permit an untested pilot to fly his aircraft.
Sheesh...... and we thought Dean was the unbalanced candidate.
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posted on
05/04/2004 12:02:28 PM PDT
by
Darlin'
("I will not forget this wound to my country." President George W Bush, 20 Sept 2001)
To: thiscouldbemoreconfusing
It's there for anyone to use in any way they see fit.
To: bellevuesbest
This story makes absolutely no sense and I hope they call him on it. No fighter pilot is going to give up the controls of a multi-million dollar aircraft unless the passenger has had some type of training...especially at 12,000 feet where a mistake would be deadly in a matter of seconds. In addition, unless you do this on a regular basis, you are not going to be sight seeing flying upside down. He would be lucky if he didn't barf in his outfit.
To: jmstein7
But he knows something about aircraft carriers!
To: Peach; bellevuesbest; Rebelbase; All
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posted on
05/06/2004 4:19:35 AM PDT
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: annyokie
So does my retired Naval Aviator! But on a local forum here, some loon claiming to be a pilot is insisting I posted erroneous comments by posing as my husband. This "pilot" wants people to believe that you would come out of a loop upside down!
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posted on
05/06/2004 4:40:04 AM PDT
by
Wiser now
(A bitter, sour old woman is the crowning work of the devil.)
To: Mia T
Bored Certified now thinks he's a pilot. Riiiiight.
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posted on
05/06/2004 5:03:54 AM PDT
by
Peach
To: Peach
bump ;)
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posted on
05/06/2004 5:27:54 AM PDT
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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