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From: geoffm@EBay.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Sidewinders on everything
Message-ID: <1991Feb21.032104.13000@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 21 Feb 91 03:21:04 GMT
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From: geoffm@EBay.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)


In article <1991Feb20.053506.981@cbnews.att.com> henry@zoo.toronto.edu 
(Henry Spencer) writes:

>The original Sidewinder-armed aircraft, the Crusader, carried its 
>Sidewinders on its fuselage sides.


	The Sidewinder was fired from F-86s during the Korean War, long
	before the entry into service of the F8U Crusader.  


Geoff


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