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On 7/29/2014 1:48 PM, Orval Fairbairn wrote:
> In article <d2RBv.372475$uU1.113657@fx05.am4>,
>
>> On 27/07/2014 21:58, chuck@olypen.com wrote:
>>> Here is an interesting bit of trivia for you.
>>>
>>> Amazing WWII Aircraft Facts
>>>
>>> 276,000 aircraft manufactured in the US.
>>>
>>> 14,000 lost in the continental U.S.
>>>
>> Who shot that lot down? Friendly-fire I assume.
>
> No -- many were lost due to "stupid pilot tricks," like swooping down
> into a chicken yard to see how many birds you can blow away with
> propwash, or flat-hatting over water in a B-24 and tipping sailboats
> over with propwash.
>
> Of course, there were the usual number of too-close encounters with
> thunderstorms, ice, fog, etc.
>
And the Empire State building (B25 Billy Mitchell bomber,Saturday July
28 1945)
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