Dear Mr Miller... I would like to communicate to you the way the GT Forum members feel in a way which you would understand. I'm sure at 90 even you have seen Top Gun. So in the spirit of Goose..."uh...we were communicating Sir..."
This may be off topic here .....but the 77 "IRIAF" F-14 never become boat anchors as you state...parts where cut off but where supplied thru black market after the revolution and then Reverse Engineering took over....they still fly today .....just posting few facts....as my father (a Brigadier general) and cousin flew F-14's under the Shah's regime and as cadet hoping to fly the F-14 I can speak to this topic.[/url]
100% correct.My Father was in the IIAF; oversaw the training of virtually all IIAF Cadets in TX; built Iran Air from zero to 747s; orders from McDonnell Douglas, Northrop, Lockheed, Raytheon, GE, R-R, Airbus, Gen Dynamics; Sikorsky, Bell, MAN, Concorde all graced his desk and plaques are still in the B747SP. He and his partners cut the deals; can view invoices, wires and US embassy cables on wikileaks.The mastery in the negotiations; contingency plans; and 1976 DoD $ deposit were genius.From Gen. Petreaus assesment of the Quds, to Billions $ on palletes bound for Mehrabad in '16
to Top 20 in GDP....
"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."
- George Washington, August 19, 1789
But shouldn't we be happy that I didn't go for 600K?