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Major "King" Kong: "Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one...

Heh, your sig reminds me of a similar engineering quip: Mechanical engineers make weapons, civil engineers make targets.

"I'm gonna be the first one out of the parking lot if it's the last thing I do..."

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I can understand why many of those were not picked. What's there to say about the F16 that couldn't have been said about the F15, F4, etc? Nice aircraft, but didn't change aviation. The Me-262 was the first real combat jet, so again, what did the Mig15/F86 really change? Same again for...