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[Mitchell Holman[_9_]]

[R2D2]

On Wed, 05 Dec 2018 06:39:02 -0800, Stormin' Norman
> wrote:

>On Wed, 05 Dec 2018 07:29:50 -0600, Mitchell Holman
> wrote:
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>For a piston engine aircraft, the Spads could deliver a world of hurt
>just about anywhere it was needed.

Bomb load of a B-17 PLUS 4 cannon...

[Miloch]

In article >, R2D2 says...
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>On Wed, 05 Dec 2018 06:39:02 -0800, Stormin' Norman
> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 05 Dec 2018 07:29:50 -0600, Mitchell Holman
> wrote:
>>
>>For a piston engine aircraft, the Spads could deliver a world of hurt
>>just about anywhere it was needed.
>
>Bomb load of a B-17 PLUS 4 cannon...


Consider this...the F-106 was only 4 inches shorter than a B-17...designed for a
different kind of mission but still...only 20 years or so apart, the change in
military aviation was huge.




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[Byker]

"Miloch" wrote in message ...
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>Bomb load of a B-17

Twenty years later, the F-4 could stagger into the air with 18,000+ lbs. of
external ordnance