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To: GBA
>>nd I believe that Lefty Gardner's race P-38 is still flying.<<

I think it is actually undergoing repairs after a crash, but I'm not sure.

>> In case you didn't know, the original name for the F-22 was the Lighning II in honor of the original.<<

And they should have kept calling it the Lightning II. Raptor isn't bad, but people think they're talking about dinosaurs.

159 posted on 01/09/2005 11:01:37 AM PST by Dan Middleton (To the everlasting glory of the infantry shines the name of Roger Young!)
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To: Dan Middleton

If true, that's too bad, but hopefully it will fly again. I remember being in the pit area at one of the Phoenix 500 air races and ducking out of a rare rain storm under that plane. It was a religious experience.


160 posted on 01/09/2005 11:56:51 AM PST by GBA
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