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Old 08-06-2008, 02:10 AM
FPSOlkor FPSOlkor is offline
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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/.
Perhaps, perhaps... As I'm a pilot myself I believe I have a right to have a personal oppinion? And it is - I love Yak-18t and Piper Cherokee, although the later one is a bit cramped to my taste. This is my dream plane, that I would trade my soul for:

But all Jets (including F-86 and MiG-15) to me are nothing more then just "whistles".

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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.
Well, this poster for military (which I'm not) pilots will never become obsolete


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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.
You mean like this one?


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