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From: twb@goanna.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (Tony Basaranowicz)
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Subject: Re: F-14 went to Viet Nam????
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Date: 16 Jan 91 01:41:02 GMT
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From: twb@goanna.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (Tony Basaranowicz)

plains!umn-cs!LOCAL!thornley@uunet.UU.NET (David H. Thornley) writes:

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>Vietnam.  (In any case, the events in the *novel* "Flight of the
>Intruder" were obviously not 1974 or later, and therefore F-14s have
>no business in the *book*; I don't know what changes the moviemakers
>might have made.)

>DHT

How many of you out there have *actually* read the book? No F-14s feature in
it at all. The main fighter-type in the book is the F-4 Phantom, while as you
may already know, the A-6 is the aircraft featured most heavily in the book.

Where the F-14 (D) *is* featured is in the sequel to FOTI, Final Flight,
another good offering from Stephen Coonts (latest is The Minotaur). Although
the flying sequences are described with detail, it takes about 2/3 of the book
to get to the really good stuff - but overall, IMHO, I rate the book fairly
high.

>From another posting I read, I was disappointed to hear that the character-
isations were not all they could have been in the film. The characterisations
in the book were excellent, and the opening of the book in particular had a 
surreal quality to it.

                                   Tony Basaranowicz, (twb@goanna.cs.rmit.OZ.AU)
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