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"Keith Willshaw" wrote:
"Brian J. McCann" wrote in message A couple of night ago the History Channel aired a program about the F-14. During the promo it was stated that the Tomcat is the world's fastest fighter. I dunno, every aviation book in my house puts it clearly behind the F-15 and the MiG 25. Also, the program stated that the Shah of Iran ordered a fly-off between the F-14 and the F-15 in order to decide which one he was gonna buy. But when the narrator was talking about the Eagle, they showed footage of what was clearly an F-5. So, what's going on here? Am I wrong, is the Tomcat actually faster than the Eagle. And what's up with the F-5 footage? Did the US offer the Shah F-5s or F-15s? Did the documentary show the wrong footage, or did the narrator misread the copy, or was he given the wrong copy? When I get confusing information from a documentary it makes me doubt the validity of the entire work. Which is very wise, the history channel is 90% dreck IMHO To paraphrase [and bowdlerize] Theodore Sturgeon's famous quote from the '50's, "90% of *everything* is dreck." It is the belief of many that that number goes up to Ivory soap ranges [99 and 44/100ths percent] when the subject under immediate discussion is television programs, whether broadcast or cable network. -- OJ III [Email sent to Yahoo addy is burned before reading. Lower and crunch the sig and you'll net me at comcast] |
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