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"Rob Perkins" wrote in message
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[...] Is the article online someplace?

If it is, you'll find it at http://www.airandspacemagazine.com

They do have tables of contents for all of their back issues, to 1986. The
article I read was sometime in the last ten years for sure. In a quick
look, I noticed that the Feb/Mar 2001 issue has an article called "Don't
Mess With Switzerland", but I don't remember the article well enough to know
whether that's the one that talked about their in-mountain bases. That
article's not online anyway.

I scanned the list of articles they do have online, and didn't see anything
that caught my eye. Your best bet is to browse through the last five or ten
years of issues (there's only six per year, so that's not as daunting as it
sounds ) and see if any of the other article titles sound promising. Of
course, it wouldn't hurt to see if a nearby library of yours has the Feb/Mar
2001 issue, in case that article turns out to be the one I'm thinking of.

I might actually still have the Feb/Mar 2001 issue around, so if I get a
chance I'll look for it. But generally, I recycle the magazines every 12 to
18 months, so I probably don't.

Pete

Feb/Mar 2001 issue has an article called "Don't
Mess With Switzerland",

I don't think so. The piece you're remembering may even have been a
short "Soundings" or other department, not a feature article.

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"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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Feb/Mar 2001 issue has an article called "Don't
Mess With Switzerland",

I don't think so. The piece you're remembering may even have been a
short "Soundings" or other department, not a feature article.

Possibly. It definitely had at least one photograph, showing the highway
and entrance to a hangar, but that doesn't rule out it having appeared in a
column. The cover of the Feb/Mar 2001, and even the article's statement
certainly suggest that article is focused on Switzerland's airplanes, rather
than its air force bases.

I *think* the article was before 2001 as well. I simply mentioned that
article as the single article I noticed in my brief search among the back
issue information.

Pete