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Newspapers and headlines...
Above the story,in today's Gazette, of a possible recovery of a P-40 from a
Chinese lake is the headline "WWII jet will arise from lake". Simple case of someone other than the reporter writing the headline? Hardly! The story starts "BEIJING - Engineers and divers will use high-tech ocean searching and mapping gear to lift an American fighter jet that crashed into a southwestern Chinese lake during World War Ii, organizers said Monday. The Associated Press should be ashamed of themselves, they once had standards. Regards, Tex Houston |
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You know Tex, it just shows you how "advanced" the human race has become.
John Allison put a P40 into a lake near Kunming back in 1940 I think it was. The Chinese came out about ten thousand strong and lowered a bamboo mat down and stretched it under the airplane. John said he stood on the edge of the lake and watched the whole thing. The Chinese pulled at the ends of the mat and literally with hand power only, raised the airplane from the bottom. I'm sure there was more to it than that, but John said that was the general gist of it. Now we have "modern science" :-))) Isn't progress wonderful? :-))) Dudley Henriques International Fighter Pilots Fellowship Commercial Pilot/CFI Retired "Tex Houston" wrote in message ... Above the story,in today's Gazette, of a possible recovery of a P-40 from a Chinese lake is the headline "WWII jet will arise from lake". Simple case of someone other than the reporter writing the headline? Hardly! The story starts "BEIJING - Engineers and divers will use high-tech ocean searching and mapping gear to lift an American fighter jet that crashed into a southwestern Chinese lake during World War Ii, organizers said Monday. The Associated Press should be ashamed of themselves, they once had standards. Regards, Tex Houston |
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Did the AP report that his engine stalled or maybe the aircraft hit an
air pocket? I find that whenever something I know is reported in the press it's barely recognizable in the reports. I keep this in mind when they "report" on all other topics. -- Scott -------- "the Arabs should remember that they invaded and occupied important parts of Europe hundreds of years before the Crusades wars. " Zuheir Abdallah-columnist for the London-based Arabic daily Al-Hayat http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD55103 Tex Houston wrote in message ... Above the story,in today's Gazette, of a possible recovery of a P-40 from a Chinese lake is the headline "WWII jet will arise from lake". Simple case of someone other than the reporter writing the headline? Hardly! The story starts "BEIJING - Engineers and divers will use high-tech ocean searching and mapping gear to lift an American fighter jet that crashed into a southwestern Chinese lake during World War Ii, organizers said Monday. The Associated Press should be ashamed of themselves, they once had standards. Regards, Tex Houston |
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