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Old October 10th 03, 05:50 PM
Ogden Johnson III
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"Keith Willshaw" wrote:

"Brian J. McCann" wrote in message


A couple of night ago the History Channel aired a program about the
F-14. During the promo it was stated that the Tomcat is the world's
fastest fighter. I dunno, every aviation book in my house puts it
clearly behind the F-15 and the MiG 25.

Also, the program stated that the Shah of Iran ordered a fly-off
between the F-14 and the F-15 in order to decide which one he was
gonna buy. But when the narrator was talking about the Eagle, they
showed footage of what was clearly an F-5.

So, what's going on here? Am I wrong, is the Tomcat actually faster
than the Eagle. And what's up with the F-5 footage? Did the US offer
the Shah F-5s or F-15s? Did the documentary show the wrong footage,
or did the narrator misread the copy, or was he given the wrong copy?
When I get confusing information from a documentary it makes me doubt
the validity of the entire work.


Which is very wise, the history channel is 90% dreck IMHO


To paraphrase [and bowdlerize] Theodore Sturgeon's famous quote from
the '50's, "90% of *everything* is dreck." It is the belief of many
that that number goes up to Ivory soap ranges [99 and 44/100ths
percent] when the subject under immediate discussion is television
programs, whether broadcast or cable network.
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