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Originally Posted by KevinP73 View Post
For those among us, myself included, who are not aviation buffs whats the story on the A-3's ?
Nate is right...I actually know a few old A-3 guys (and a woman NFO) and they always laugh that A-3 stood for "all three dead".

It had no ejection seat(s), was very under powered off the cat and had miserable missions. In other words, if

Like most aircraft, the aircrew seemed to speak fondly of the jet when they weren't *****ing about it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-3_Skywarrior
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