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March 8th 08, 02:40 PM
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( OT ) 5 passengers, 4 parachutes . ..
dxAce wrote:
wrote: The boy said, "It's Ok, there's a parachute left for you. America's cleverest President jumped out with my School Bag ." LOL, and how easily imagined true  You probably have more trouble putting on your Depends than the President would have putting on a parachute. He was after all at one time a qualified pilot. And you, just another retard on the short bus. Not only a pilot, but an F102 pilot...one of the hardest aircraft to fly. And his own wing commander proudly stated he was one of the MOST accomplished F102 pilots in the Guard. That doesn't come easy. Tim Worstall writes: Even in peacetime conditions, F-102 pilots risked their lives on every flight. Only highly-qualified pilot candidates were accepted for Delta Dagger training because it was such a challenging aircraft to fly and left little room for mistakes. According to the Air Force Safety Center, the lifetime Class A accident rate for the F-102 was 13.69 mishaps per 100,000 flight hours, much higher than the average for today's combat aircraft. For example, the F-16 has an accident rate of 4.14, the F-15 is at 2.47, the F-117 at 4.07, the S-3 at 2.6, and the F-18 at 4.9. Even the Marine Corps' AV-8B, regarded as the most dangerous aircraft in US service today, has a lifetime accident rate of only 11.44 mishaps per 100,000 flight hours. The F-102 claimed the lives of many pilots, including a number stationed at Ellington during Bush's tenure. Of the 875 F-102A production models that entered service, 259 were lost in accidents that killed 70 Air Force and ANG pilots. |
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