To: buccaneer81
Vipers as search planes? They've got to be kidding. What a desperate bunch of numb-nuts running the show.
Vipers? THe F-16's nickname is the Falcom - at least in the USAF. The F-16 can be equipped with infra red equipment that may bring fruit.
22 posted on
07/02/2005 7:32:44 PM PDT by
tang-soo
(Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
To: tang-soo
Among the flight crews, Falcon has never been fully accepted. Viper has been the unofficial nickname for years. (I'm an Air Force brat.)
30 posted on
07/02/2005 7:36:37 PM PDT by
buccaneer81
(Rick Nash will score 50 goals this season ( if there is a season)
To: tang-soo
I worked for GD in the 80's too. I never heard the 16s called Vipers until the mid-90s.
50 posted on
07/02/2005 7:47:17 PM PDT by
Half Vast Conspiracy
(If their Chief of police is okay with it, I am guessing that we should probably be okay with it.)
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