Mike Pearson see .sig wrote:

Of the 875 F-102A production models that entered service, 259 were lost
in accidents that killed 70 Air Force and ANG pilots, an accident rate
far above the other aircraft in service at the time. By December of
1969 all F102's had been removed from service in Southeast Asia (they
had been flown as a part of the ANG's "Palace Alert" program) and were
used for domestic air defense by the ANG. It was hardly the
state-of-the-art machine that you think it was at that time.


The f-104 was pretty bad too. Almost three hundred of them crashed. It
earned the nickname the 'Widowmaker'. Is that the price of the lowest
bidder winning or a case of delivering faulty goods?




mike