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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
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LTC (Join to see) If the Legend is to be believed "We Want Our Plane Back" "Of Course" (Piece by Piece after it was disassembled and each Piece Photographed by the Intelligence Services).
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Didn't the Chinese with the same thing when our electronic warfare P3 Orion plane landed in tinian Island after colliding with a Chinese fighter plane that was intercepting it?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Island_incident
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MAJ Ken Landgren
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From what I remember, the US was completely surprised by the simple engineering of the plane.
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I'm wondering if the movie Firefox was Loosely based on the fox bat being flown to Japan.

https://youtu.be/Y0BmrPrEm7g
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
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Remember this well. State of the art for the day was still vacuum tubes for many of our aircraft as well. Don't think that would have made any difference on EMP. I actually remember training on dealing with EMP in early 70s when our B-52s were still vacuum tube avionics.
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Thank you, John, for your pilot expertise. I wouldn't have known this. Another reason I enjoy rallypoint so much!
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