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Old 12th Sep 2023, 14:26
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Thud_and_Blunder
 
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You won't be, LLad - I finished the copy I was given as holiday reading on our way back to the UK from warmer climes, coincidentally reading the passage re the meeting between F117 operator and the battery commander i/c the SA3 that brought him down just as we were flying through Serbian airspace. A very good read, every bit as informative and engrossing as the other 2 books I took with me ("What If? 2" by XKCD creator Randall Munroe and "The Body" by Bill Bryson), which were themselves very good indeed.

Way, way back in this thread around #163 someone replied to my tongue-in-cheek request not to give away the ending by saying "they ejected.." - clearly that person hadn't read JN's book, as the very-well-made point throughout is that the ejection was the start of the story. Some very sobering stories are included, with reminders that there are folk out there who've been through more in a few moments, months or even years than many of us would achieve in several lifetimes.
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