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Subject: Re: Stealing Fighters
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Date: 31 Oct 89 04:06:42 GMT
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From: random@cbnewse.ATT.COM (Random @ rebmA)

>From article <10578@cbnews.ATT.COM>, by shafer@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov:
>  
>      Stolen F-16 crashes
>  
> Has anyone heard of any other cases of stealing military aircraft?
>  

It doesn't seem that dificult from a ground based airfield. When I worked
SAC, the taxiway was located at the edge of the aircraft parking lot. If
I were to have orded a refuel (in my capacity as an Integrated Avionics
System Specialist) and had the standard ground support equipment, I could
have gotten the engines started after pulling the ground-saftey pins,
disconnected the 'dash60' ground start unit via a long cord, and kicked 
the engines up to full to full afterburner without arousing suspicion
right away. Someone on the night shift might have called to see why they
were not informed of an engine test, but probably not unless there was
a crew chief truck hanging around. The crew chiefs would KNOW something
was up. If the alarm dDID go out at this time, I don't care. I'm right 
next to the taxiway, and it's just as long as the runway. I can jump
the wheel chock and be gone in about 20 seconds! All I have to wory about 
is: losing an engine, fire, blowout, bullets, stall, oxygen, A-10's,
and landing.

	Not that I ever considered such a thing.
	
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