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Air Force jets collide in mid-air
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| 06-11-2007
| By JAMES HALPIN
Posted on 06/11/2007 3:25:28 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Old Student; Smokin' Joe
Thank you for your intelligent and thoughtful answers to my query. I appreciate them.
I would like to disagree that the older pilots would be lost in the newer planes; they were very smart and able. If you put them into today's planes, I think they would do a fine job.
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06/13/2007 7:53:16 PM PDT
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Constitution1st
(Never, never, never quit - Winston Churchill)
To: Constitution1st
I would like to disagree that the older pilots would be lost in the newer planes; they were very smart and able. If you put them into today's planes, I think they would do a fine job. My dad was a USMC pilot in the '50s when the Corps was changing from prop to jet planes. They lost a lot of pilots figuring the new technology out.
Not taking anything away from the older pilots, but new tech can be dangerous. At the least they would have to be re-trained extensively.
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06/13/2007 7:58:08 PM PDT
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LibKill
("RUDY GIULIANI" is just "HILLARY CLINTON" misspelled and wearing a dress.)
To: Constitution1st
“I would like to disagree that the older pilots would be lost in the newer planes; they were very smart and able. If you put them into today’s planes, I think they would do a fine job.”
Some would adapt fine, of course, but I was present when General Welch (CINC-USAF, IIRC) was talking to the Turkish Chief of Staff, who had just completed a check-ride in an F-16, and they were talking about how much more fun the F-100 was...
Given time and the need to adapt, they would, but some will always resist change.
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06/14/2007 8:03:24 AM PDT
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Old Student
(We have a name for the people who think indiscriminate killing is fine. They're called "The Bad Guys)
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