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From: rl@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Robert Langridge%CGL)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Was it something I said?
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Date: Wed, 22-May-85 19:24:41 EDT
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In article <759@ssc-vax.UUCP> wanttaja@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ronald J Wanttaja) writes:
>
>Is one of the sites for net.aviation down?  Us aviators don't like anything
>"down."  Anyway, traffic on this net has been nearly non-existent for two
>weeks.

I was wondering too.  Thanks, Ron.

>Or do we need a sufficiently outragous topic to start conversation again?
>Like, "The USAAF should never have produced the Mustang, and should have
>lavished the money on a good fighter..." 

Agreed, they should have bought Spitfires.

So, while on the subject of beautiful aircraft, what are the net nominations
for "most beautiful aircraft"?  Form does not always follow function, but
some, like the Spitfire, Concorde, Voyager and almost any high performance
sailplane, certainly qualify.

Bob Langridge.  rl@ucsfcgl  (UUCP and ARPA).