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To: RinConRon who wrote (216983)8/25/2007 11:56:01 AM
From: LindyBill  Respond to of 793917
 
We dismantled the aircraft and found it to be overall not a great threat.

The built the engine out of steel, and, as I recall, it burnt out at high machs. "MiG Pilot: the Final Escape of Lt. Belenko," by John Barron, was a very good book by the pilot who escaped. When being debriefed by the CIA, he couldn't believe an American Supermarket in Virgina that they let him go through. He was sure it was a fake. Nobody could have that much food on display.