[AHerald]

Flying the F-102 was anything but safe. It was considered one of the most dangerous planes to fly.

[TomB]

Flying the F-102 was anything but safe. It was considered one of the most dangerous planes to fly.

Which of course begs the question, joe, if Bush was a coward and wanted to aviod service in Vietnam, why didn't he use his contacts and get a SAFE job stateside, like pushing papers or, maybe, journalist?

[dighton]

Being a fighter pilot -- for that matter, simply taking off in a single-engine jet fighter of the Century series, such as an F-102, or any of the military's other marvelous bricks with fins on them -- presented a man, on a perfectly sunny day, with more ways to get himself killed than his wife and children could imagine in their wildest fears.

-- Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff.

[Ramcat]

Don't waste your time. Snuffy's been presented with the facts but chooses to snip at the ankles.

[19th LA Inf]

Flying the F-102 was anything but safe. It was considered one of the most dangerous planes to fly. From an old O-club song: "If you fly a 102, don't go up unless it's blue - if it feels one drop of rain, you'll have pieces - not a plane"

[CMAC51]

Flying the F-102 was anything but safe. It was considered one of the most dangerous planes to fly.

I would be willing to wager that 90%+ of the people who fault GWB for his military service have never done anything knowingly that involved as much personal risk as flying combat maneuvers in a supersonic fighter jet.

[185JHP]

Not many fighters since then have had delta wings. It was an idea that came and went - fast.