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The Whistler - 07:02pm on 02/21/2008

Where and when did TV stations sign off and on?
Pluto in the 5th century perhaps?

Kevin - 09:02pm on 02/21/2008

Ah the F-104 Starfighter…

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Missile with a man in it

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Widow maker

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Lawn Dart

I planned from early on to make an F-104 my office and a G-suit my business clothes, but bad eyes have a way of keeping you from getting no closer that a back seat RIO.

Alas, things that might have been..

Move_Zig - 01:02am on 02/22/2008

North Dakota.  I’m not so sure they aren’t still doing it around here.  Guess you’d have to stay up late or get up early to find out.

The Whistler - 06:02am on 02/22/2008

Whistler,

Thanks for posting this.  “High Flight” was always one of my favorites, but for many it will always be remembered as President Ronald Reagan’s eulogy to the Challenger astronauts in 1986.

Bat One - 09:02pm on 02/22/2008

As for the “coolest fighter ever”, I’d have to disagree.  The F-22 Raptor is the coolest performing fighter ever, while the coolest looking aircraft is still the SR-71 “Habu”.

Bat One - 09:02pm on 02/22/2008

What was the chance that Bat was going to favor a plane that was designed to look like the Bat Plane.

The Whistler - 06:02am on 02/23/2008
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