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Sabre45
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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 5:02 pm Post subject: F-117 last flight today
Local newspaper article, April 26, 2008 On April 28, 2008, another good aircraft is retired due to a lack of funds. Sabre45

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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 5:06 pm Post subject: Re: F-117 last flight today
Geezzz, it seems like only yesterday that plane was THE hot plane of the military!! Thanks for the post Sabre45!!

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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 7:10 pm
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27 years?!?!
No way!
Who stole my life?

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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 9:05 pm Post subject: Re: F-117 last flight today
that's really a short life span considering the amount of money we spent on research and building them. Not a good payback for our tax dollars. But hey, we got money to burn right? lol

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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:53 pm Post subject: Re: F-117 last flight today
Every Monday sucks, and I just found out why this one did too... _________________ 'Aut Pugna aut Morere'

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Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 11:51 am Post subject: Re: F-117 last flight today
I really can't believe it's 27yrs !!! Holy C'molly... Hey I would of had hair back then _________________ System: Mobo - Asus P5N32 E-SLI, RAM - Corsair 2GB 6400C4 DDR2, Graphics - GeForce 8800GTS 320mb GDDR3 PCI-Express, Proccessor - Intel CPU Core 2 Duo E6600 2.40GHz 1066FSB LGA775 4MB cache.

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Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 12:27 pm Post subject: Re: F-117 last flight today
Geez....We need a true air war so we can use our money's worth with these planes. _________________ "Well, I gotta go...Yeh I'm running out of change"

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