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From: nolan@TWG.COM
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Equipment Comparison
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.033032.3328@amd.com>
Date: 27 Mar 91 23:51:34 GMT
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From: nolan@TWG.COM

This week (26 March) PBS broadcast a NOVA program titled
something like "Top Gun and Beyond", an examination of the
high-technology weapons systems of the U. S. and how effective
they were. In particular the program examined the human factor 
in these systems.  One point that the program raised was that
the crusty-old-fart Top Gun instructors in their obsolete
equipment could outfly the trainees in their F-14s.

Chuck Yeager, in his introductory cassette to his AFT2 flight
simulator, says something similar.  He'd rather fly against an
inexperienced pilot in high-performance aircraft - the grizzled
veteran in a baling-wire-and-bamboo contraption is the more
formidable opponent.
-- 
Nolan Hinshaw			Internet: nolan@twg.com
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