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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: SW Cheese Country
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Our 10 year old could tell you just about anything you want to know, especially in the Pacific theater. When they transitioned to Hellcats and the Japanese aces that mistook them for Wildcats. How unreliable our torpedoes were, both from vessels and aircraft and how the Japanese built their armor belt to withstand our torpedoes that used TNT for explosives and that we didn't use TNT like they thought. Torpex I think it was.
He will also tell you that the F4U was the best aircraft instead of the Hellcat because it was far more versatile in its roles.
He could tell you why the B-17 is more famous than the still very capable and more efficient B-24.
Our daughter likes all the modern stuff. At 4 she went to her first Fleet Week Coronado festival of Speed she asked a Seahawk pilot how you fly a helicopter. He started saying that the rotors spin fast enough to generate lift and she stopped him and said "I know how it flies, how do you fly it".
My kids are avgeeks.
Paul, would it be easier to ask what you haven't flown?
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Brent
The X15 was the only aircraft I flew where I was glad the engine quit. - Milt Thompson.
"Don't get so caught up in your right to dissent that you forget your obligation to contribute." Mrs. James to her son Chappie.
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