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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
88 Richard Bong

Some kind of altitude record?

20 posted on 06/18/2003 6:12:31 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: hole_n_one
LOL! P-38 ace in the Pacific, as I'm sure you know. Managed to to kill himself when his P-80 flamed out on takeoff. 'Chute wrapped around the tail and he went in with his plane. Yeager considered him arrogant and claimed that he died because he didn't learn about his aircraft before he flew it = NOT A TEST PILOT.
22 posted on 06/18/2003 6:14:59 PM PDT by RoughDobermann
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To: hole_n_one
Bong was the top WWII ace fighter pilot.
28 posted on 06/18/2003 6:22:55 PM PDT by Cloud William
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To: hole_n_one
The inventor of the bong , lol
41 posted on 06/18/2003 6:35:32 PM PDT by Damagro
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