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From: hthomas@irisa.fr (Henry Thomas)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: CNN Report On Paris Airshow
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.081104.16859@irisa.fr>
Date: 17 Jun 91 08:11:04 GMT
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In article <875@newave.UUCP>, john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III) writes:
|> CNN Headline News had a blurb on the Paris Airshow tonight.
|> I thought I would pass on what I caught of the report.
|> [...]
|> 
|> Hermes mock-up on display.  Mir mock-up.  CNN also filmed some
|> type of multi-nation (non-US) space hardware that I did not catch--it
|> looked like a space station and I think they called it the Columbus.
|> Anyone know what I might have seen?

Colombus is the european module which should be connected to the space station freedom. And Hermes would enable european astronauts the access to such module, independently of the american fancyness.

|>|US military aircraft are on display complete with US troops.
|>Planes shown on the video include the F-117A 'Stealth Bomber',
|>F-14 Tomcat, A-10 Warthog (complete with kill stats painted on
|>the nose), F-15 Eagle, and the AH-64 attack chopper.  (It seems
All these bombers have a stick on them : "Proved in combat". Is there a stick on the victims "Tested in combat" ?
|>[...]

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