"Tom Cooper" wrote in
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"Mary Shafer" wrote in message
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On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:47:38 +0100, "Ian Craig"
wrote:

Nope - never heard that one. Care to enlighten me?

I have heard about the USAF fitter (don't know what the americans
call them?) who did pull-ups on a pitot probe and bent it. Rather
than fix it
he
bent the rest of the flights? Heard that one - I'm sure I could
find it
and
read it to you some other time??

That was a Greek guy guarding two transient aircraft, not an
American. It was reported in Flight International.

Indeed, it was a Greek guard who did this on one of four Mirage F.1EQ
underway from France to Iraq, in April 1981. After noticing he did
something wrong, he bent the pitot probes on the other three aircraft
too... The French had to fly-in a team of technicians with spare parts
to solve the problem.... ;-)))

Tom Cooper
Co-Author:
Iran-Iraq War in the Air, 1980-1988:
http://www.acig.org/pg1/content.php
and,
Iranian F-4 Phantom II Units in Combat:
http://www.osprey-publishing.co.uk/t...hp/title=S6585



More British (penis) envy of their French neighbors. How tiresome...
and yet fun!

Not that I love the French, but I love the unrestrained never ending
British jealousy directed at the evidently technically superior French
(Planes, Trains and Automobiles--oops! I forgot ships too (Queen Mary
II)!).

As for the Brits, they do degrade their neighbors in remarkably good
taste. Jolly Good!

On a military note, what's the deal with the MoD considering 'drastic
reductions' in the Eurofighter orders?