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Back in the saddle again
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
Posts: 57,053
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Quote:
Originally Posted by herr_oberst
Fun fact; if you were getting ready to crash land, there was a procedure to jettison the turret. Apparently it was better to crash land without a blister hanging off the bottom of the craft. If you had 40 minutes before you had to crash land, you were expected to grab the electronic gunsight from the ball turret, because they were expensive.
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Very interesting!
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Steve
'08 Boxster RS60 Spyder #0099/1960
- never named a car before, but this is Charlotte.
'88 targa  SOLD 2004 - gone but not forgotten
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