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Post #139,925
by altmann
2/5/04 1:08:09 AM
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New F-102s not F-16s
And he scored a whopping 25% on his pilot aptitude screening test.
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Chris Altmann
Post #139,930
by deSitter
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2/5/04 2:08:30 AM
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New Right
Technically speaking the Convair F102 is not a fighter, rather an interceptor. It handled like shit because its only purpose was to go on afterburner until it was in missle range of a Soviet bomber. It had an undistiguished career with the Air Force and was retired by 1960, replaced as interceptor by the F104 and F106 and then by the F4 which had vastly superior range and flight characteristics. Active AF squadrons with primary mission were operational for only a short time in the late 50s because of limited range and speed. Its direct replacement was the Convair F106 "Delta Dart", which was in production for only a short time. Delta wing jets were too clunkly to be useful. Convair was ditched by the AF for producing low-performance aircraft.

IOW by 1970 the F102 was a useless piece of junk reduced to escort duty for B52s in Vietnam, or in the ANG.
-drl
Post #139,931
by deSitter
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2/5/04 2:09:19 AM
2/5/04 2:13:13 AM
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New -
-drl
Expand Edited by deSitter Feb. 5, 2004, 02:12:40 AM EST
Expand Edited by deSitter Feb. 5, 2004, 02:13:13 AM EST
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     Bush as CEO - (ben_tilly) - (20) - Feb. 4, 2004, 07:24:20 PM EST
         The man is an idiot - (deSitter) - (15) - Feb. 4, 2004, 08:13:13 PM EST
             Yeah ...Right. - (BDaye) - (13) - Feb. 4, 2004, 10:50:24 PM EST
                 flying is reflexes and practice - (boxley) - Feb. 4, 2004, 11:01:09 PM EST
                 Re: Yeah ...Right. - (deSitter) - Feb. 4, 2004, 11:40:28 PM EST
                 None of those things - (jake123) - Feb. 5, 2004, 12:21:20 AM EST
                 F-102s not F-16s - (altmann) - (2) - Feb. 5, 2004, 01:08:09 AM EST
                     Right - (deSitter) - Feb. 5, 2004, 02:08:30 AM EST
                     - -NT - (deSitter) - Feb. 5, 2004, 02:13:13 AM EST
                 Actually, even most Americans didn't agree - (Simon_Jester) - Feb. 5, 2004, 09:27:44 AM EST
                 Degrees - (tuberculosis) - (4) - Feb. 5, 2004, 11:44:09 AM EST
                     Because that isn't what an MBA teaches - (ben_tilly) - (3) - Feb. 5, 2004, 02:09:33 PM EST
                         So MBA is a trained parasite - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Feb. 5, 2004, 02:23:13 PM EST
                             Yes, and this one has leached onto the whole country :-( -NT - (ben_tilly) - Feb. 5, 2004, 02:52:54 PM EST
                         College teaches theories - (orion) - Feb. 5, 2004, 02:44:08 PM EST
                 I was going to point out your error about airplanes, but, .. - (mmoffitt) - Feb. 5, 2004, 12:21:11 PM EST
             Want to know whom is an even bigger idiot? - (orion) - Feb. 5, 2004, 01:09:12 AM EST
         HBS degree alone is not that impressive. - (a6l6e6x) - (3) - Feb. 5, 2004, 11:27:52 AM EST
             I'm not surprised. - (Another Scott) - (2) - Feb. 5, 2004, 11:33:11 AM EST
                 The thing is - (jake123) - Feb. 5, 2004, 12:46:15 PM EST
                 Re: I'm not surprised. - (deSitter) - Feb. 5, 2004, 04:10:36 PM EST

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