wolit@rabbit.UUCP (Jan Wolitzky) (08/31/84)
The front page headline in today's "USA Today" read: B1 CRASH WON'T SLOW BOMBER Man, that's some airplane! Not only does it carry enough cruise missiles to Assure Destruction of any arms-control treaty the foe could throw at us, not only does it move with enough Stealth to evade any Congressional Budget Office investigation, but now we learn that it's so rugged that even a crash won't slow it down! I guess that's what all that fancy terrain-following radar is for -- so after a crash it just FEELS its way along the nap-of-the-earth right to its target, full speed ahead! Makes ya proud to be an American! [I heard a radio interview with some General who lamented the loss of "a fine testbed" -- no mention of the dead pilot. So it goes...] Jan Wolitzky, AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ
dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale) (09/01/84)
[I heard a radio interview with some General who lamented the loss of "a fine testbed" -- no mention of the dead pilot. So it goes...] Maybe because the pilot was a civilian???