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Unusual New Jet Warbirds

Posted by Kenneth on Thu Apr 18, 2002 01:13:30 PM

I know this is not the main interest of most people posting
on this board, but I found it quite interesting nonetheless:

"Red Bull" Aviation, the impressive vintage aircraft
collection operated by the Austrian soft drink manufacturer
of the same name, has obtained two Dornier-built
(presumably mothballed) Alpha Jets from the German Air
Force and has had them converted to civilian use by
Fairchild-Dornier! They are tentatively scheduled for
display at "ILA 2002", the German equivalent to the
Farnborough Airshow, in Berlin in May (where, incidentally,
both flyable Bf 109's in Germany are also scheduled to
appear...)

(Sources: Fairchild-Dornier (Press Releases) and ILA 2002
websites)

Kenneth

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