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Posted by osher on Saturday, September 9, 2006 12:17 PM
 rudy_102 wrote:
I think I see Araya on the nose of one of them.
Close, close, but no cigar just yet...
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Posted by rudy_102 on Saturday, September 9, 2006 12:21 PM
Maya?
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Posted by osher on Saturday, September 9, 2006 12:27 PM
 rudy_102 wrote:
Maya?
Nope, I work with a Maya, had a date with a Maya (in fact, two Mayas!), and my neice is called Maya, but no, that's not the answer!
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Posted by rudy_102 on Saturday, September 9, 2006 12:40 PM
Something-aya?
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Posted by osher on Saturday, September 9, 2006 12:54 PM
OK, here's some clues:
It's named for a valley in Israel, part of the East African Rift Valley.  Come on folks...I'm sure you can easily Google the answer!  Let's see, it starts with an A, has in fact 3 letter a in it's name, and is 5 letters long...

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Posted by rudy_102 on Saturday, September 9, 2006 1:26 PM
Alaya? Amaya? Agaya? Adaya? Asaya? Layla! Ya got me on ma knees, LAYLA! OK, I'm just taking wild guesses. Awaya? Aqaya? Ataya? Apaya? A playa? Tongue [:P]
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Posted by osher on Saturday, September 9, 2006 1:43 PM
One of your guesses was so close...but only the first one!  Have fun working it out, I'll look in later!
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Posted by david on Saturday, September 9, 2006 2:35 PM
acaya?
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Posted by david on Saturday, September 9, 2006 2:37 PM
alcaya?
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Posted by david on Saturday, September 9, 2006 2:39 PM
aclaya?
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, September 9, 2006 3:46 PM
I believe that would be the Arava.
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Posted by osher on Saturday, September 9, 2006 6:58 PM
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I believe that would be the Arava.
  That is correct!  Your turn!
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, September 9, 2006 7:28 PM
This might be easy for some, but what was the RCN's only Jet Fighter.
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Posted by osher on Saturday, September 9, 2006 7:31 PM
Hornet?
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, September 9, 2006 9:28 PM
I'm afraid not, the RCN was almagamated with the RCAF and Canadian Army in 1968, 14 years before the Hornet entered Service. The Hornet is operated by AIRCOM, the RCAF descended portion of the Canadian Forces.

Note the RCN's only Jet Fighter was indeed operated from a Carrier, which is something Canada hasn't had since 1970.
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Posted by osher on Sunday, September 10, 2006 12:50 AM
Banshee?
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Posted by david on Sunday, September 10, 2006 4:05 AM
F2H banshee?
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 10, 2006 10:34 AM
F2H-1 Banshee is correct. Osher got this one first by the looks of it.
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Posted by osher on Sunday, September 10, 2006 10:38 AM
 mykroft wrote:
F2H-1 Banshee is correct. Osher got this one first by the looks of it.
Cool!
OK, hmmm, my question...
In the 1980's a pilot on a training course, in an F-15, did something which the computers 'proved' was impossible, and which MDD refused to believe possible, until sent the pictures.  What did he do?
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Posted by david on Sunday, September 10, 2006 11:36 AM
a wild guess a backflip?
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Posted by osher on Sunday, September 10, 2006 11:38 AM
 david wrote:
a wild guess a backflip?
Thumbs Down [tdn] Nope!
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Posted by david on Sunday, September 10, 2006 11:57 AM
a font flip
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Posted by rudy_102 on Sunday, September 10, 2006 12:05 PM
Carrier landing?
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Posted by osher on Sunday, September 10, 2006 12:10 PM
No & no!
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Posted by david on Sunday, September 10, 2006 12:26 PM
i give upDead [xx(]
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Posted by rudy_102 on Sunday, September 10, 2006 12:27 PM
Opened his canopy in mid-air, and it still stayed on? A Pugachev Cobra? A tailslide?
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Posted by osher on Sunday, September 10, 2006 1:12 PM
 rudy_102 wrote:
Opened his canopy in mid-air, and it still stayed on? A Pugachev Cobra? A tailslide?
No No No

Come on...have a think!

Hmmm, here's a clue: 2 foot.
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Posted by navypitsnipe on Sunday, September 10, 2006 2:02 PM

put it into a flat spin? a knife edge?

 

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Posted by osher on Sunday, September 10, 2006 2:30 PM
Think more, a pilot doing an extrodinary procedure, in response to an extrodinary event involving an A-4 Skyhawk.
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Posted by Matt90 on Sunday, September 10, 2006 2:37 PM
Is this the story about how the pilot avoided a mid-air collision, even though the computer models clearly showed the planes hitting each other?
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