mike wilson wrote: >> From: Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: 2007/10/18 Thu PM 08:14:36 GMT >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> >> Subject: Re: Completely and totally OT: Politics >> >> Well, Canada did buy a bunch of F-104's. Too bad ours were low-level nuke >> ground attack birds (Absolutely no air-to-air capability due to lacking a >> gun prior to 1972 and a dedicated ground-attack radar instead of the normal >> air-to-air set). We shoulda bought F-105 thuds instead. >> >> The CF-104 killed a lot of Canadians. > > Not to mention the Germans and Americans. Should have gone for the EE > Lightning. >
Actually the F-104 was relatively safe in US service, as well as Japanese service. Of course, the US never bought all that many (Canada was the biggest user, by a large margin) and used them as high-altitude interceptors, which is what they were designed to do. That reduced the safety issues down to landing. The Lightning was little better for the role the Canadians and Germans were doing, the Thud on the other hand... -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
