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02-22-2021, 08:38 AM

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Airhoss

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Originally Posted by rickair7777

The public doesn't know or care who made the motor.

They don't even know who made the motor in their own car, and chance's are decent it wasn't the company who made the car.

Although Reuters got it right...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-b...-idUSKBN2AL0PD

Of course a competent journalist could spend 10 seconds researching it and then educate the public..

WAIT what was I thinking? Never going to happen.

02-22-2021, 08:57 AM

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Can someone tell me why this is posted in the United forum?

02-22-2021, 09:20 AM

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Can someone tell me why this is posted in the United forum?

Because it was another P&W engine that came apart a day later? Just a guess.

02-22-2021, 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Airhoss

Of course a competent journalist could spend 10 seconds researching it and then educate the public..

WAIT what was I thinking? Never going to happen.

I learned long ago, the more you know about a subject, the more you realize journalists are ignorant and often have a bias. They get it wrong and are so superficial.

02-22-2021, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Airhoss

Of course a competent journalist could spend 10 seconds researching it and then educate the public..

WAIT what was I thinking? Never going to happen.

Reporter during Gulf War: “Pilots like flying here because they can use their “thruster boosters”, which they can’t use in the USA”

02-22-2021, 01:31 PM

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Reporter during Gulf War: “Pilots like flying here because they can use their “thruster boosters”, which they can’t use in the USA”

I was watching that live when it happened. That’s not exactly what he said but it was close.

02-22-2021, 01:34 PM

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In my younger days, I used to tell my special lady friends about my "thruster booster".

02-22-2021, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Airhoss

I was watching that live when it happened. That’s not exactly what he said but it was close.

I remember a reporter talking over the footage of an "F-16 returning from his sorrteeeeeeee, twin thruster boosters blazing"
Didn't realize that F-16s had two engines or two tails, or that they used their thruster boosters to help them land