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   From: hcharper@goldenvalleycable.com   
      
   OM wrote:   
      
   > considering how many friends and colleagues I had who got fucked over   
   > on the A-12 fiasco and the bribed decision to choose the F-22 Raptor   
   > over the superior YF-23   
      
   I think the best airplane ever built was the DC-3. While technologically   
   inferior to today's planes, nothing has ever matched it's reliability   
   record.   
      
   Back in the delta we'd load them up with 50 cals and miniguns and watch   
   them slide sideways in the air as they turned a jungle into lead   
   blacktop. And like a Cylon, they could take a licking and keep on   
   ticking too!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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