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Old 22nd May 2018, 18:02
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Salute!

TNX Lyne, was in a hurry and had to depart the fix.

Recall that I have a personal and vested interest in the IAF from long ago.

So I taught and flew with the initial IAF Viper cadre back in 1980. Only one I clearly remember from later years was the young one that died in Columbia. They all used pseudonyms and we did not even know where they lived in Ogden or their phone numbers. They called in for the flight schedule times. Security was extreme. The senior dude was about my age and experience, and the rest were progressively younger on down to the "golden boy" who became an astronaut.

I am sure that most flew in the Iraqi nuke attack just one year later.

So we see a repeat of what they did for the nuke reactor building a few years back, huh?

The big problem for IAF is showing their "hole cards" too early. So I would not see a lotta missions using the F-35 until a large conflict.

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