Thanks for the links.
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i did not ask him about after-war experience too much because i never actually was interested in "whistles" - they seem to be "soulless" to me.
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Yea, the pilots' greatest life experience are from the war, but many continued to fly for far longer for
some reason. Find out if some of the pilots saw a soul in the early jets. I've read an account by a Tu-128 pilot and he loved his aircraft to no end.
Both pilots and ground mechs saw ALOT of soul in at least one jet. Czech out the forums here...
F-106 forum ~>
http://forum.f-106deltadart.com/
As for the planes, it was
always higher, faster, further
from Polikarpov's I-1 to MiG's -25, until the late 1960s or 1970s, when military aviation died,
full stop, Ussian and Russian, Brit as well.
But I kinda agree to something: post-modern all digital SuperHUDjets seem soulless to me, and they all look the same, made by the post Cold War corporate merger of Grumman/MiG/McDonell Douglas/Sukhoi.