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**Orval Fairbairn[_2_]** · June 26th 08, 04:54 AM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation

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Orval Fairbairn wrote:
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: A friend of mine here used to trim so that he was always in a skid, to
: throw the NV gunners off. They would lead in the direction his nose was
: pointing, not the actual flight path.

Arf Arf Arf! Never thought of that. For the L-19/O-1 that would work
pretty good. At 1500 feet the bad guys just get a glimse of you through
the trees. I worked at 6,000' so I was mostly a moving dot. And I have
smelled the sulpher in the tracers when they we close in front of me.

Another picture of the Pushmepullyou, this time a proctologist's delight.
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The friend is Dick Cuneen; Did you also happen to know Keith Phillips?

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