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Dominican Born US Marine Fighter Pilot - RIP
Greed takes another talented life
A true tragedy, a good brave Aviator meets his death because the DOD insists on feeding McDonnell Douglass and flying those useless deathtraps (HArriers)
A plane that "fought" meeting certification, has never performed anywhere?s near projections and is inherently unstable, all to satisfy a defense contractor
Put a competent pilot in a Korean War Mig 19 ans he will wax that multi million dollar flying dumptruck evertime
Had the Argentinians used properly trained pilots, the poor Brits would have lost not only thier Air Wing but likle thier expeditionary fleet to the Mirages and Entendards, the Sea Harriers were no match in trained hands
My condolences to The Captain and his loved ones.
A true tragedy, a good brave Aviator meets his death because the DOD insists on feeding McDonnell Douglass and flying those useless deathtraps (HArriers)
A plane that "fought" meeting certification, has never performed anywhere?s near projections and is inherently unstable, all to satisfy a defense contractor
Put a competent pilot in a Korean War Mig 19 ans he will wax that multi million dollar flying dumptruck evertime
Had the Argentinians used properly trained pilots, the poor Brits would have lost not only thier Air Wing but likle thier expeditionary fleet to the Mirages and Entendards, the Sea Harriers were no match in trained hands
My condolences to The Captain and his loved ones.
The Argentine pilots are very skilled.Every time they would take off from air fields in Argentina the traitor Chileans would report it to the British.The Sea harriers would take off and guide in the missiles against the Argentine pilots.
They were very brave.Hitting 75% of British shipping.But some of the bombs did not detonate.We will never forgive what the Chileans did to the Argentine's.Fellow Latin's should not be traitors.
Capo
Please accept my apology.
I should have said :'Poor planning and tactics, lack of competent command, lack of assets (Air to air refueling and AA to missiles), lack of avionics and not least, lack of experience by the pilots
It should also be considered the Argentine pilots lacked ELINT and were woefully unprepared for a "long distance" war where the Mirage and Daggers could employ their speed over the Harriers
This post was about the loss of a good Marine pilot, I again apologize for taking it to a issue of complaining about the "Junk" Harrier
Please accept my apology.
I should have said :'Poor planning and tactics, lack of competent command, lack of assets (Air to air refueling and AA to missiles), lack of avionics and not least, lack of experience by the pilots
It should also be considered the Argentine pilots lacked ELINT and were woefully unprepared for a "long distance" war where the Mirage and Daggers could employ their speed over the Harriers
This post was about the loss of a good Marine pilot, I again apologize for taking it to a issue of complaining about the "Junk" Harrier