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Re: Jet question = T-33

Posted by Ron on Sun Feb 16, 2003 01:51:20 PM

In reply top Jet question posted by Rob Rohr on Sat Feb 15, 2003 10:26:57 PM

T-33 has flown longer and probably had a bigger impact on most allied/NATO jet pilots who trained on them and went on to fly the hotter machines. If you look at it from a design point of view, it's 1940's technology that was good enought to keep them going in service even today! Only the DC-3 could match that longevity. The ZIP, F-104 would be my choice in the fighter catagory, MiGs are okay but I class them them same quality and technolgy as tractors. Yes they lead in early fighter development but the technology was borrowed, begged and stolen and their doctrine over air superiority was quantity over quality.

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