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2003-08-19 East Asia

China to Raise Sunken U.S. Fighter Plane

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Posted by Steve White 2003-08-19 3:03:02 AM|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 A P40 jet? Then I am really impressed by the Japanese pilots who were able to down some of them while flying mere Zeros.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-8-19 3:43:21 AM|| 2003-8-19 3:43:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 P40 jet?!! It wouldn't be an Al Grauniad aritcle without a glaring factual error or two.

Posted by Bulldog 2003-8-19 6:14:49 AM|| 2003-8-19 6:14:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 The Red Chinee are gonna reverse engineer a Tomahawk?

Posted by Shipman 2003-8-19 7:28:52 AM|| 2003-8-19 7:28:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Jets of any kind at a front in 1942. And it still took us 3 years to finish winning the war! How did FDR and Churchill manage to screw it up?? Time for an investigation?

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-8-19 9:03:13 AM|| 2003-8-19 9:03:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Quagmire!

Posted by seafarious 2003-8-19 9:56:21 AM|| 2003-8-19 9:56:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 The Red Chinee are gonna reverse engineer a Tomahawk?

I think they already have - of the kind with the sharp edges. Just check out one of the outdoorsman catalogs.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2003-8-19 10:21:07 AM|| 2003-8-19 10:21:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Oh man, someone tell me how I missed "P40 jet" at 1 in the morning.

Posted by Steve White 2003-8-19 10:41:17 AM|| 2003-8-19 10:41:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Man, get one technical word rhong in an article and you guys are all over it like ants on spilled honey, LOL!

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-8-19 1:52:01 PM|| 2003-8-19 1:52:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 The Red Chineese are gonna reverse engineer a Tomahawk?

Does that mean that we'll see cheap, imported P-40 replicas for sale at Wal-Mart and Super K-Mart?

Cool.

Posted by Mike 2003-8-19 6:05:42 PM|| 2003-8-19 6:05:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Not to be nit-picky,but the Flying Tigers actually didn't start fighting until after Pearl Harbor.First combat with Japanese occured on Dec.20,1941.

Posted by Stephen 2003-8-20 12:04:02 AM|| 2003-8-20 12:04:02 AM|| Front Page Top

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