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I wonder if that Swedish fighter was shipped from the factory in a flat cardboard box and came with an allen key to assemble ??
 
The manual was all pictures, and there were always leftover parts. The original name was "SNEKLA", and the production plant was a feckin' maze you could wander around in for days.

"Tractors? No. Backhoes? No. Trucks? Crap, we were in Trucks 20 minutes ago..."
 
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Somewhat effective against a shaped charge warhead, but not really against a kinetic penetrator. It did put a strain on the suspension but gave crews something of a psychological boost that they had a bit more protection. Cdn units festooned their Shermans with extra track for the same reasons. In spite of the pic I don't think Patton spent too much time checking tanks for non-reg protection.
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Exactly, forces the chemical energy to expend into the sandbags rather than bore through the armour plate.
 
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The manual was all pictures, and there were always leftover parts. The original name was "SNEKLA", and the production plant was a feckin' maze you could wander around in for days.

"Tractors? No. Backhoes? No. Trucks? Crap, were in in Trucks 20 minutes ago..."
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Yes but it is the highest ranked in safety and could be flown into the side of a mountain and the pilot just walk away, to bad the radio only pumped out ABBA hits.
 
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Is it unbearable yet? :)

How about with Eva Braun and the Stief Fanta Bear?
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As originally built by McDonnell Douglas, F/A-18s were good for 6,000 flight hours. With the end of the Cold War, the Navy and Marines delayed plans for replacement fighters – and extended the old Hornets to 8,000 hours in order to bridge the gap. Now the military expects some F/A-18s to last a staggering 10,000 flight hours
 
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I read somewhere they painted the Finnish air force marks on the hurricans while still in England and then painted over them for the flight to Finland, have to check that story.

For an interesting read find, 'Double Fighter Knight', the autobiography of Ilmari Juutilainen, Finnish ace with 94 confirmed kills. He was up against some obsolete aircraft and poor pilots in 1939, but then he was a rookie himself and flying in some pretty obsolete aircraft until he got the 109 in 43. By that time he was up against some crazy numbers, so still amazing really. If I recall, the dust jacket has a pic of him in a newly acquired Finnish F18 in the early 90s just before he passed away.
 
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As originally built by McDonnell Douglas, F/A-18s were good for 6,000 flight hours. With the end of the Cold War, the Navy and Marines delayed plans for replacement fighters – and extended the old Hornets to 8,000 hours in order to bridge the gap. Now the military expects some F/A-18s to last a staggering 10,000 flight hours
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And the Lieberals want to extend our CF-18's to 20,000 flight hours, by which time we'll be colonizing Alpha Centauri.......;)
 
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German test pilot Wilhelm Eickhoff in a Roland D.VIa at Hannover Langenhagen, c. November 1917.

Can you imagine getting in one of those and actually taking off? Not to mention dog fights. Balls of steel!
 
At least it's got a 4 stroke engine. How'd you like to fly a Rotary 2 stoke...with Castor oil added as a lubricant. Yeah, a nice mix of exhaust with just a hint of Castor oil blowing into your face...read somewhere that by the end of a sorty, you have to go No. 2 pretty badly.
 
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