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To: q_an_a
He sure looks like a guy that knows how to carry his flight gear.

Remember, G.W. was an F-16 driver in the Air National Guard.

15 posted on 05/01/2003 12:45:29 PM PDT by scooter2
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To: scooter2
GWB flew an F-102.
22 posted on 05/01/2003 12:48:41 PM PDT by Grand Old Partisan (You can read about my history of the GOP at www.republicanbasics.com)
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To: scooter2
He flew the F-102.

His dad flew in an F-16 at Nellis when he was VP - I was there in the crowd to watch him do it.
25 posted on 05/01/2003 12:51:57 PM PDT by Tennessee_Bob (Dieses sieht wie ein Job nach Nothosen aus!)
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To: scooter2
Remember, G.W. was an F-16 driver in the Air National Guard.

They didn't HAVE F-16s back then. He flew the F-102 Delta Dagger.

145 posted on 05/01/2003 3:59:50 PM PDT by Poohbah (Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)
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To: scooter2
Question.... was it an F16 or an F102?

I have heard both reported.

156 posted on 05/01/2003 4:13:24 PM PDT by bert (Don't Panic !)
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To: scooter2
Remember, G.W. was an F-16 driver in the Air National Guard.

F-16's weren't around when the President was in the ANG. He flew the F-102.

180 posted on 05/01/2003 5:20:59 PM PDT by jackbill
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To: scooter2
Remember, G.W. was an F-16 driver in the Air National Guard.

He was an F-102 pilot, his time was before the F-16 even hit the drawing boards at General Dynamics (now LockeedMartin). The F-102 was obsolescent even then, and his unit switched to the similar follow on F-106 about the time he left it. The -102 and -106 were both Convair aircraft, but Convair was folded in to GD, but I think those two were California built, while the -16 was built in Ft. Worth Texas. -102 first flew in 1953, -106 in 1956, the -16 in 1974 (YF-16) or '78 (production F-16A).

188 posted on 05/01/2003 8:18:16 PM PDT by El Gato
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