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Post #64,958 by drewk 11/25/02 3:49:13 PM Reply	Dozen friends? Bah! Briang all your friends, and most of your enemies, with one of [link\|http://www.airforce.ru/english/aircraft/ekranoplanes/\|these]. === Microsoft offers them the one thing most business people will pay any price for - the ability to say "we had no choice - everyone's doing it that way." -- [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=38978\|Andrew Grygus]
Post #65,361 by Ashton 11/27/02 4:13:57 AM Reply	You just might like.. [link\|http://aeroweb.lucia.it/~agretch/RAFAQ/MiG-29pilot.html\| Fulcrum] by Alexander Zuyev. A few in-cockpit vignettes as the author describes his defection from Voenno-vozdusnye Sily (Russian Air Force) to Turkey. (Fulcrum is what the Russ called the MIG-29) Pretty exciting stuff, esp. his trip down the runway at night.. trailing the plugged-in starting generator, til attrition finally yanked it loose! Yeah - bits of Walter Mitty in us all, Ashton
Post #65,373 by CRConrad 11/27/02 5:54:53 AM Reply	Nit: "Fulcrum" etc are NATO code-names for Soviet aircraft

A pilots dream - (boxley) - (8) - Nov. 24, 2002, 08:14:02 PM EST

Looks like they have it over... - (a6l6e6x) - Nov. 24, 2002, 10:21:12 PM EST

It's my dream to 1 day own a DC-3. Thanks. -NT - (mmoffitt) - (6) - Nov. 25, 2002, 02:54:07 PM EST

Beech Staggerwing is my dream - (bbronson) - (5) - Nov. 25, 2002, 03:28:51 PM EST

An amphib or a russian Yak is my dream -NT - (boxley) - (1) - Nov. 25, 2002, 03:41:08 PM EST

A-10 Warthog. -NT - (inthane-chan) - Nov. 25, 2002, 04:07:44 PM EST

Dozen friends? Bah! - (drewk) - (2) - Nov. 25, 2002, 03:49:13 PM EST

You just might like.. - (Ashton) - (1) - Nov. 27, 2002, 04:13:57 AM EST

Nit: "Fulcrum" etc are *NATO* code-names for Soviet aircraft -NT - (CRConrad) - Nov. 27, 2002, 05:54:53 AM EST

Should be pasted on all overpasses.
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