"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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Subject: Why We Lost The Vietnam War
From: John Mullen
Date: 1/25/04 11:40 AM Pacific Standard Time
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ArtKramr wrote:

If a more powerful engine (and thicker skin) and oval windows used in
the
initial design, it would have worked very well. But!!!! Many
subsequent
planes would have fallen out of the sky with the problems the Comet had
in
metal fatigue, etc. In hindsight the Comets research made all jet
planes
far safer, and saved many lives.



Y'mean the Comet is why we lost the Vietnam War????

If you'd had the Comet, you'd have lost it even faster than you did!



John


WRONG. We won every war I ever fought in. ((:-))

Only because FDR had the political will to win the war. Unlike LBJ, who was
more interested in Lady Bird's company Brown and Root paving Viet Nam.