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Re: Jet question = T-33
Posted by Gregory on Sun Feb 16, 2003 07:09:01 PM
In reply top Re: Jet question = T-33 posted by Ron on Sun Feb 16, 2003 01:51:20 PM
Rob -
I agree wholeheartedly, but do bear in mind that various piston trainers have also had long careers. The fifty years of F-104 squadron service for a fighter exceed what the P-51 did in the Dominican air force!
Gregory
: T-33 has flown longer and probably had a bigger impact on
: most allied/NATO jet pilots who trained on them and went o
: n to fly the hotter machines. If you look at it from a des
: ign point of view, it's 1940's technology that was good en
: ought to keep them going in service even today! Only the D
: C-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 the
: y lead in early fighter development but the technology was
: borrowed, begged and stolen and their doctrine over air s
: uperiority was quantity over quality.