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"Jim Yanik" wrote in message
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Gators was an attempt at humor,but even normally brave people shy away at
the thought of being a gator's dinner.

I was out in Florida retrofitting some old 727s in '92 and I found fried
gator tail to be delicious.

But the chance of hitting something critical still is very small,and the
frontal area of an airplane is still pretty small and a moving target.
Still not an easy task.

Hitting a target moving at 120 kts with a bullet would be pure luck.



Or LOTS of practice. There was a Russian sniper in WWII whose name
eludes me at this moment (and it's too late to phone a friend of mine,
shooting instructior who told me the name) who downed a German plane with a
rifle by hitting the canopy and killing the pilot. Of corse, such people are
very rare but with hundreds of millions of muslims avaliable you might
find and train few good snipers. Let's hope that after 9/11/2001 FBI monitors
not only people participating in flight lessons but also people training
in sharp-shooting...



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