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To: PeteePie

My first flight-instructor flew those during the war.


55 posted on 04/09/2015 10:39:18 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

Amazing, and he lived to tell about it. Those ME110s were supposed to be the F-35 of their day and failed miserably. The concept of an all-in-one fighter/ground attack/miracle working wonder plane should have died then but it comes around every generation. McNamara tried it with the F-111 and got the same thing, a white elephant wrought with cost overruns and an impressive airframe with an unimpressive maintenance record that could not really do anything expected of it very well.


56 posted on 04/09/2015 1:45:57 PM PDT by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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