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Re: Thanks!
Posted by T J Johansen on Tue Dec 23, 2003 01:04:16 PM
In reply top Thanks! posted by Randy Haskin on Mon Dec 22, 2003 10:52:59 AM
Hi Randy,
Saw your post first on the mustangsmustangs site, and thought, damn, what a shame!!! But hey, I remember reading in the newspaper back around 1982-83 that there had been an Iraqi attack at the Iranians, (this was early in the war between them!)by a Spitfire! The Iranians had started to laugh at this old ridicoulous plane, but quickly choked (literally) when the plane started spraying gas over the troops on the ground! I checked this with our own PeterA some years back, and he confirmed that Iraq never operated Spits, so chances are the culprit was indeed a Sea Fury!!! So who's to say they couldn't repeat that. Secondly, did the pilot have time to start thinking about what he was firing at when it happened, or did he just react! Easy to be an armchair aviator I guess! I read your first thread well enough to understrand that you didn't like this any better than the rest of us, so I'm not pointing any fingers. Things happen, and some times not the way we want them to. Anyway, I see my old friend Dick Phillips are referring to something about you and Cavalier Mustangs, so snap to attention young man, and give us a quick briefing on this subject. I am kind of interested in those Florida reworked 51s!!!!
T J Johansen
Oslo, NORWAY