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interesting...
The rumor that a UAV was shot down and everybody assumes
it was some hich farmer with a blunderbuss.
A2A, folks....
fredfighter@spamcop.net wrote:
>
> Dan wrote:
> > Stealth Pilot wrote:
> > > On Mon, 01 May 2006 22:23:50 -0700, Ron Wanttaja
> > > <ron.wanttaja@comcast.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Tue, 2 May 2006 00:36:12 -0400, "Morgans" <jessmorgan@cJhUaNrKter.net>
wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> "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.
> >
>
> The pilot said "several thousand feet up", too. See above.
>
> That would be a rather spectacularly good shot on the
> part of the rancher.
>
> --
>
> FF
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