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"davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com" (davesaddiction) 07/23/2020 at 22:33 • Filed to: None

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ttyymmnn > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 07/23/2020 at 22:36

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So much French. 

For Sweden > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 07/23/2020 at 22:55

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Jb boin > For Sweden 07/23/2020 at 23:54

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Had a genuine laugh at this.

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 07/24/2020 at 00:37

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...and take THAT, Monsieur Reagan and your so-called “Air Force One”. 800 kilometres par heure, pah! I fart in your general direction! I wave my genitalia at you!

Only Vespas... > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 07/24/2020 at 01:00

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Nervous.  Even 31 years later.  Little jets flying in formation with a big one.  I think of the XB-70.  

ttyymmnn > Only Vespas... 07/24/2020 at 01:16

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Looks like they’re  staying ahead of the wingtip vortices. Lesson learned?

facw > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 07/24/2020 at 01:55

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They could at least learn who was president in 1989 (unless we are talking early January)

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > facw 07/24/2020 at 02:17

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Why would the President of France care who’s in charge of some tinpot Joh nny-come-lately  r epublic that doesn’t even have a supersoni c presidential jet?

facw > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 07/24/2020 at 02:19

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Can’t argue with that... Clearly we should have slapped an Air Force One paint job on the remainin g XB-70 or an SR-71 and sent it.

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > facw 07/24/2020 at 02:26

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That would have been the correct thing to do regardless of what the French were up to.

Roadkilled > Only Vespas... 07/24/2020 at 09:48

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The photographer was almost certainly using a telephoto lens. I can’t imagine that the press plane would have been allowed close to this formation. The telephoto lens will make all of the objects look closer together than they actually are. As ttyymmnn notes, the escorts are ahead of the Concorde’s wing and they are probably a lot further away from the big plane than they look.