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From: larmo@pro-odyssey.cts.com (System Administrator)
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Subject: Re: How many planes in a sortie?
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Date: 15 Feb 91 07:30:57 GMT
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From: larmo@pro-odyssey.cts.com (System Administrator)
In-Reply-To: message from jumper@hobbes.ncsu.edu

>A sortie is one plane one mission.  If six planes go out on one mission
>then there are six sories logged.

Correct

>Assuming there are no aborted missions I would expect it is 2 X # sorties.
>Two because the plane has to take off and then land.

Nope, SORTE: from the french word sortir (to leave): a Mission flown by a
             single military aircraft. If the aircraft aborts after a partial
             mission or does not return a sortie is still logged
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