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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (408024)8/19/2008 2:33:46 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) of 1574093
 
"Vietnam-era planes were notorious for being unreliable."

Say what?

His first crash was in a prop plane in '58 or '59. Not exactly start of the art, nor what you would call unreliable by that time. It was early on a Saturday morning, he claimed the engine quit. However, when the plane was recovered, nothing could be found wrong with the engine. His second was because he was flying low enough to snag some power lines. That usually gets you pulled off flight status, assuming you survive, because you can't justify it. The third was a flameout, that one wasn't necessarily his fault.
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