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Stealth Pilot wrote:
> On Mon, 01 May 2006 22:23:50 -0700, Ron Wanttaja
> <ron.wanttaja@comcast.net> wrote:
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>> On Tue, 2 May 2006 00:36:12 -0400, "Morgans" <jessmorgan@cJhUaNrKter.net>
wrote:
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>>> "Richard Lamb" <cavelamb@earthlink.net> wrote
>>>
>>>> I heard rumor it was shot down...
>>> That's one hell of a good shot, if it really was at 12,000 feet, as it was
>>> reported to be! <g>
>> Reminds me about the story about the Fed pouncing on a rancher who'd fired a
>> rifle at a military fighter that he claimed had been buzzing his cattle. The
>> fighter pilot denied it, claiming he'd been in straight-and-level flight
several
>> thousand feet up.
>>
>> Fighter pilot, however, could NOT explain why the rifle bullet's exit hole was
>> only slightly higher on the left side of the fuselage than the entry hole in
the
>> right....
>>
>> Ron Wanttaja
>
> turning while shot.
> a steep turn would make the situation easily achieved.
>
> Stealth pilot
The pilot said "straight and level." See above.
Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired
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