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From: sanders@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Robert M Sanders)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: F/A 18
Message-ID: <7081@vax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Date: 6 Dec 90 20:47:14 GMT
References: <1990Nov30.175221.343@tc.fluke.COM> <1990Dec1.194329.20431@dg-rtp.dg.com> <1990Dec2.201152.22965@cs.umn.edu> <2049@otc.otca.oz> <17740@teda.UUCP> <4108@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: sanders@vax1.udel.edu (Robert M Sanders)
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In article <4108@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> xrtnt@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov writes:
>This reminds me of a picture I once saw.  It is of an F18 on full afterburner
>about 20 ft off the surface of the ocean (the flames just licked the water)
>poiting as near vertical as one can imagine.  The guy said he made a copy of
>the picture from an air boss on some carrier (name eludes me) where a pilot had
>missed his landing and ended up off the deck with almost no airspeed.  The
>bugger threw it into afterburner and managed to pull it out without ditching
>the aircraft.
>
Any chance of getting this photo digitized and put on the net somewhere?  This
sounds REALLY neat.

                                                    Rob