Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sun!amdcad!amdcad!military From: U38956%uicvm.uic.edu@OHSTVMA.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Air to Air F-16 vs. F-18 Message-ID: <1991Jun7.072037.7793@amd.com> Date: 3 Jun 91 16:20:17 GMT References: <1991May24.030712.9709@amd.com> <1991Jun1.012622.27527@amd.com> Sender: military@amd.com Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago Lines: 21 Approved: military@amd.com From: I quoted earlier in the net a quote from the Red Baron: "The quality if the crate matters little. It is the quality of the man sitting in the crate that counts." I know that it is the person in the plane that counts most. To quote Adolph Galland as well: "Only the spirit of attack borne in a brave heart will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be." When I brought up the USMC F/A-18s and USAF F-16 dogfight, and said there was some significance in that, this is one of the things I was considering. true, the F/A-18 and F-16 are both great planes, but it's whose flying the plane that makes the difference. Who can emply it to its potential, etc. I was not necessarily saying that the F-18 was better, but that it was employed better and used more efficiently Bones