Lords of the Sky: Fighter Pilots and Air Combat, From the Red Baron to the F-16 (94 page)

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 Bailey bridges were prefabricated and could be assembled without using heavy equipment. They were used extensively in World War II, and due to the modular design, combat field repairs were easy to make.

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 Interestingly, though the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria, formally ended in 1971, UAR stamps were still being used by Egyptian customs agents in 1992.

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 They were all men until 1994. In 2001, Roni Zuckerman, granddaughter of two leaders from the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, became the first Israeli woman to earn pilot’s wings.

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 Saddam wasn’t concerned about the United Nations. After all, Israel had defied the UN since 1947 with no consequences—even for 45 condemnations by the UN Human Rights Council.

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 The U.S. Military Academy at West Point trains officers, but the U.S. Army doesn’t fly fixed-wing combat aircraft.

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 The USAF
finally
got rid of the T-37 in favor of the T-6 Texan II, a slick turbo-prop aircraft with a glass cockpit.

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 There is no direct comparison but this is approximately 55,000 horsepower. A long way indeed from Roland Garros’s little 80-horsepower Gnome engine.

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United States Air Force Core Values
, also known as “The Little Blue Book,” published by the tens of thousands in 1997, when line fighter squadrons were running out of paper for their copy machines.

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 KARI—
Irak
, the French word for “Iraq,” spelled backward.

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 This is happening to you next time a police radar gun is pointed your way.

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 LCDR Scott Speicher from VFA-81 off the USS
Saratoga
. It has never been satisfactorily proven what shot him down on January 17, 1991.

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 By way of comparison, an entire year of the Vietnam Rolling Thunder campaign (1966) flew 79,000 sorties and dropped 136,000 tons of bombs.

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 The Raptor’s brief, incredibly expensive debacle as the F/A-22, for example. It is now, once again, simply the F-22.

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 See Chapter 1.

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 The first recorded modern use was by German zeppelins during the night of January 18 or 19, 1915.