Jeffrey MacHott  wrote:
> Chris wrote:
> >  Jeffrey MacHott  wrote:
>
> >> Yep, part of the long-standing American tradition of making
fighter jets
> >> big and fast enough to just bull-in-a-china-shop their way through any
> >> opposition regardless of inferior maneuverability, in the tradition of
> >> the P-47 Thunderbolt and the F-105 Thunderchief.
>
> > i'll just pretend i didn't read a comparison of similarity between the
> > Thunderbolt and the Thud.

If stone knives and bearskins can use either brute force or
eligence, so can more recent technology.

> > ...chris, nephew of Jug pilot in ww2

> From what I understand, both were very large, very heavy, very fast
> fighter-bombers produced by Republic Aviation.

Both brute force for their day as well.

> What faux pas did I make in comparing the two?

You failed to put them in proper context with some older model of
Starfury that was big and ugly and had huge engines  As B5
progressed each new model was a bit more eligant ...
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