In , on 08/19/2004
at 09:00 PM, Steve Hix said:

In article qn7Vc.9852$zO3.3508@trndny05, wrote:

In , on 08/19/2004
at 11:54 AM, Steve Hix said:

In article 7QYUc.6516$_w.5361@trndny04, wrote:

Nonsense. -- If the F-102 was so dangerous to fly -- then how come it
was so easy to rig with automatic controls that could take it off and fly
it as drone? -- That's where most of them went -- target practice in
combat with our best -- all under remote control. E.g., that means it was
*easy to fly and *stable. (Or course you should have known that before
now, since duba did it).

The same was done with earlier jet (and some piston) fighters with even
worse safety records.

Did you have some point to make?

For **obtuse people like you how are here to love bush -- yeah.

I thought not.

bush didn't do something dangerous and daring.

You were wrong about the F-102 being trivially-simple to fly, too.

bush didn't do something dangerous and daring. However, he did escape
going to war in Vietnam -- and topped it by going AWOL.