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<DIV><FONT face=Candara color=#000080 size=4>I love it, too and I only met it
today! It was a SUPER FAST spy plane that took LOTS of high
resolution pictures and was decommissioned in 1989. I wonder if there
are some at the Davis Monthan Air Force base or the Pima Air and Space
Museum boneyards near us. Hmmm. I would really like to see one up
close. Too bad I never got to see one fly. The most exciting thing I
have ever seen in the air (with my naked eyes) was the space shuttle being
carried on the back of a GIGANTIC airplane. It flew low over the
I-10 freeway here in Tucson while I was driving (I pulled over and
STARED) and landed out at the Air Force Base for some reason. I never
knew they were transported...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Candara color=#000080 size=4>Thanks for the info about the fuel
tanks. WOW.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Candara color=#000080 size=4>My son (PFC Joseph Headlee, USArmy)
is an operator of a couple of the military's unmanned aerial vehicles (spy
planes). Their resolution is amazing as well, but
they fly fairly low. I think they are cool. I have seen
several of them and they are quite small. They have a payload in addition
to the camera. </FONT><FONT face=Candara color=#000080 size=4>He will be
deployed in February to Iraq.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Candara color=#000080 size=4>Jeanene</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>I love this plane. Jeanene, their fule tank is a rubber type substance.
They only put enough fuel into it to get it into the air, as it leaks like no
tomorrow till it gets in the air and the tank stretches out and seals
perfectly. The plane is actually quite old and I'm not sure it ever saw much
duty (for as advanced as it is). Amazing that much hasn't come near to
replacing it. But then maybe we don't need it replaced.</DIV>
<DIV>I have been facinated by it from a very young age. Wish I could see one
in real life.<BR>~Lance</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>