I wonder what other numerical oddities we can expect in the future, since
the services seem to skip ahead of the numerical sequence whenever they feel
like it.

Yes, this is a terrible thing to do to young American boys.

(Do young American boys still obsess over military aircraft?)

(I was at the Udvar-Hazy annex to the Air & Space Museum on Saturday.
I think if you added them up, the German, Chinese, Japanese, and
Russian children outnumbered the Americans. But perhaps the latter
were all at the Imax movie.)

all the best -- Dan Ford
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