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Subject: Re: [OM] OT:Mustang overhead
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:51:15 +0100
It's not that bad, Chris.  And it was a very effective high-level aircraft with 
those high aspect-ratio wings.  Several of my colleagues have served on 
Canberra squadrons, and there one at the main gate of my station, Wyton.

Chris

On 31 Aug 2011, at 00:14, Chris Trask wrote:

> 
>    Yuck!  What an unsightly aircraft that was.  Somewhere there is a photo
> of a flight line full of those in Viet Nam, all in their revetments and all
> starting the engines with the infamous solid propellant cartridges.
> 
>    Some were heavily converted into high-altitude research aircraft with
> large turbofan engines and extended wings.  NASA had most, if not all of
> those.

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