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March 19th 04, 01:24 AM
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On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:42:28 -0800, "W. D. Allen Sr."
wrote: Just like the 1960s when the air-to-air missile was to make made machine guns unnecessary. That lasted only until the fur balls started over North Vietnam! DUUUUH!!! Or those fools who thought turbine engines would ever be worth it despite their short ranges! Or the absolute morons who believed that *helicopters* would ever prove useful despite their ability to only carry one or two people. Hindsight makes for good rhetoric, , but the simple fact is that not every grand pronouncement is wrong, and hindsight doesn't emphasise the right calls, just the bad ones. --- Peter Kemp Life is short - drink faster 
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March 19th 04, 10:37 PM
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Heck, 100 years later we *still* have horses and oxen . . .
Steve Swartz (if you can't figure out what this means, good. Hopefully you aren't on the USAF staff . . . ) "Peter Kemp" wrote in message ... On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:42:28 -0800, "W. D. Allen Sr." wrote: Just like the 1960s when the air-to-air missile was to make made machine guns unnecessary. That lasted only until the fur balls started over North Vietnam! DUUUUH!!! Or those fools who thought turbine engines would ever be worth it despite their short ranges! Or the absolute morons who believed that *helicopters* would ever prove useful despite their ability to only carry one or two people. Hindsight makes for good rhetoric, , but the simple fact is that not every grand pronouncement is wrong, and hindsight doesn't emphasise the right calls, just the bad ones. --- Peter Kemp Life is short - drink faster
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