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On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:21:39 -0400, clipka wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>> > Fire power, literally. That's what I'd call brute force. (Then again,
>> > that's what that whole ugly thing was designed for.)
>>
>> Yep, that and flying with giant gaping holes in the wings. ;-)
>
> Or to take any sort of some package in return.
>
> One of the engines blown to shreds? One side of the tail gone?
> Hydraulics dead? Half a wing missing? Landing gear stuck? Direct
> pounding to the cockpit area with something like a 20mm cannon?
>
> Ouch, rough ride home this time - but why bail out? The thing was
> designed to take all that and still make it.
>
> That plane is a real bitch: Made to abuse - and be abused, if the
> "customer" insists.
Yep. And ugly as h*ll, too. But quite an amazing piece of
engineering. :-)
Jim
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