"Mary Shafer" wrote in message
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On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:47:38 +0100, "Ian Craig"
wrote:

Nope - never heard that one. Care to enlighten me?

I have heard about the USAF fitter (don't know what the americans call
them?) who did pull-ups on a pitot probe and bent it. Rather than fix it
he
bent the rest of the flights? Heard that one - I'm sure I could find it
and
read it to you some other time??

That was a Greek guy guarding two transient aircraft, not an American.
It was reported in Flight International.

Indeed, it was a Greek guard who did this on one of four Mirage F.1EQ
underway from France to Iraq, in April 1981. After noticing he did something
wrong, he bent the pitot probes on the other three aircraft too... The
French had to fly-in a team of technicians with spare parts to solve the
problem.... ;-)))

Tom Cooper
Co-Author:
Iran-Iraq War in the Air, 1980-1988:
http://www.acig.org/pg1/content.php
and,
Iranian F-4 Phantom II Units in Combat:
http://www.osprey-publishing.co.uk/t...hp/title=S6585