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Old June 4th 04, 08:17 PM
Robey Price
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After an exhausting session with Victoria's Secret Police, Ed Rasimus
confessed the following:

Art, you of all people should respect someone who earned a commission
in the USAF and completed AF pilot training, then went on to
operationally qualify in a single-seat/single-engine fighter and fly
it for four and a half years.


Minor point of order...gwb graduated from UPT in Nov 1969 (IIRC),
qualified in the 102 in July 1970 and his last flight in a single
engine/single seat fighter was April 1972. He never flew the F-102
again.

My poor math skills indicate that he was operational for less than two
years, of course your math may come up with a different answer.
Perhaps he got bored with it.

Robey
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Old June 5th 04, 12:22 AM
Chad Irby
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In article ,
Ed Rasimus wrote:

And you don't owe your combat survival to literally hundreds of folks
who weren't in combat but who worked hard to qualify and support your
effort?


You know, like the guys who flew around in less-than-wonderful aircraft
protecting the States while the rest of them were dropping bombs
somewhere.

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Old June 5th 04, 02:44 AM
Pete
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"ArtKramr" wrote


If time is the criteria (stand by for cheap shot...), how much time to
you have as pilot-in-command? As a rated AF pilot? As pilot of a
Century Series jet? Solo?

Don't let this pioot stuff go to your head. The entire purpose of a

bombing
mission in WW II was to put a bombardier over a target for 30 seconds. The
pilot was just the driver. And when it came to flying good bomb runs some
pilots weren't worth a ****.


And today, the pilot, navigator, bombardier and gunner may well be the same
guy.

Pete


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Old June 5th 04, 04:35 AM
Steven P. McNicoll
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"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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Don't let this pioot stuff go to your head. The entire purpose of a

bombing
mission in WW II was to put a bombardier over a target for 30 seconds. The
pilot was just the driver. And when it came to flying good bomb runs some
pilots weren't worth a ****.


No, the purpose of a bombing mission in World War II was to put bombs on a
target. Many successful bombing missions were flown by aircraft without a
bombardier aboard at all. Many were flown by aircraft with only a pilot
aboard.


 




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