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echo: crossfire
to: Tim Richardson
from: Ross Sauer
date: 2008-04-28 14:04:36
subject: The US needs these...

>> The US has its own VTOL jet now that is supersonic. The Harrier isn't SS.
>> You really are an idiot.

>> Show me.

>> You really didn't know until now that the US also files VTOL aircraft?
>> You're kidding.

> Back when I lived in Yuma and worked on the railroad.....one of my favorite
> resturants was located directly across from the Air station there. I'd sit at
> a table in the window and eat, while watching the Marines lift the fighter
> jets up off the ground, and take off with them in a VTOL maneuver.
> That was back in 1975 or 76.

Back in 1992, when I went to the EAA convention in Oshkosh, the US Marine
Harrier took off, vertically, using full power.

The engines screamed almost as loud as you do about the "homos."

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