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January 7th, 2006
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| Chief Engineer  | Builder: Lockheed Martin Corp. source: http://www.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?fsID=103
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January 7th, 2006
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| Forum Health Inspector | Yeah, but back in the day, General Dynamics actually came up with the initial design and production, way before GD and Martin Marietta merged and then merged with Lockheed (I think that's the order of how it happened). I know they've got a plant in Rochester, NY (one of my cousins worked for them for a bit up there), but I'm not sure where else. Here's an easy one: what were the callsigns of the two US Navy F-14's that shot down the two Libyan Su-22's in August 1981? Also, what squadron, air wing and carrier were they from? (More trivia: my Navy ROTC commander was XO of the F-14 squadron at the time -- he went to be the skipper of the squadron -- and his name was painted on one of the planes.)
__________________  Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I. Send me!" -- Isaiah 6:8 |
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January 7th, 2006
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| Banned  | AJ You may like listening to this http://www.simhq.com/simhq3/sims/interviews/snodgrass/migshootdown.wav It is the Gulf of Sidra incident being recorded on the tape |
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January 8th, 2006
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| Can you hear me now?  | TomTom, you got it. It is your turn. I have been to Lockheed Martin Co. in Fort Worth, Texas. Where a place to built and design F-35 and F-22.
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January 8th, 2006
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| ICBM | how close... anyways, were waiting
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January 9th, 2006
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| Chief Engineer |  I'll go with AJ's four part question. Quote:
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January 10th, 2006
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| ICBM | thats .... complicating.. wasnt it the maces squadron? |
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January 13th, 2006
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| Forum Health Inspector | Quote:
1. That's not the Gulf of Sidra incident that I was thinking of. That tape is from the shootdown of two MiG-23's by two F-14's from VF-32 aboard USS John F. Kennedy in 1989. Transcript and story here. 2. Man, a lot happens in six minutes! I'm lookin' for the info from the Aug. 1981 incident. (And talk about timing -- my old CO used to say that the fight happened five minutes too early, he was on his way in to relieve the guys that actually did the shooting...) Quote:
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January 13th, 2006
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| Centurion | The squadron was VF-41, the Black Aces.
__________________ \"The advance of hope in the Middle East requires new thinking in the region. By now it should be clear that authoritarian rule is not the way of the future it is the last gasp of a discredited past. Democracy is their goal and terrorists themselves have reason to fear.\" ~President George W. Bush Do not attack the First Marine Division. Leave the yellowlegs alone. Strike the American Army. ~Orders given to Communist troops in the Korean War; shortly afterward, the Marines were ordered to not wear their khaki leggings. |
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January 14th, 2006
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| ICBM | close with maces eh..hmm is the poster above correct?? heh |
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