To: Vectorian
......absolutely NOT....!!! this "bird" is the
"Lightning II," so there had to have been an (American...!) "Lightning" - and there was....! the famous P-38 Lightning of World War II fame.... the "fork-tailed devil" as the Germans referred to it...! The F-35 was NOT named after some Brit kite.....!! get real, man....!
To: Thunderchief F-105
USAF says that it was named after the US Lightning *and* the English Lightning.
44 posted on
07/19/2006 9:47:36 AM PDT by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: Thunderchief F-105; Vectorian
......absolutely NOT....!!! this "bird" is the "Lightning II," so there had to have been an (American...!) "Lightning" - and there was....! the famous P-38 Lightning of World War II fame.... the "fork-tailed devil" as the Germans referred to it...! The F-35 was NOT named after some Brit kite.....!! get real, man....!A little testy today at Vectorian?
56 posted on
07/22/2006 1:00:45 PM PDT by
Cobra64
(All we get are lame ideas from Republicans and lame criticism from dems about those lame ideas.)
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