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James Shanks
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-----Original Message-----
From: islander <islander@midmaine.com>
To: Military Vehicles List <mil-veh@uller.skylee.com>
Date: Sunday, March 05, 2000 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Simple verses sophisticated
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>Sorry, this is a tad off topic but interesting enough to risk the wrath
>of Arthur ;-)
>
>>Theory: Factory sealed precision components eliminate the need to
>>improvise.
>>Reality: There will always be a need to improvise, but there may not
>>always be a way to improvise.
>
>My favorite recent improvisation was during the Gulf War. Iraqi flak had
>bunged up a decent number of planes and for whatever reason they couldn't
>repair the outer skin even though whatever was damaged underneath was
>fixed correctly. Nobody wanted to have these multi million dollar hunks
>of metal and computer chips sitting there because of a few holes, so what
>did our fine thinking all American ground crews come up with? Pepsi and
>Coke cans split open, cut up, and riveted over the flak holes!
Our combat mechanics for aircraft have been using anything from beer cans to
soda cans well before the Vietnam War.
Why one
>of these cola companies never made a commercial out of one of these
>planes I will never know :-)
>
>Steve
>
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