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09-09-2007, 10:59 PM
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Re: Aircraft pics
In the movie "Failsafe", the bombers are refered to as "Vindicators". The B-58 Hustler is an American aircraft. The Vindicator is a British plane, like the one in the James Bond movie "Thunderball".
I wondered back then why the discrepency. 
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#2
09-09-2007, 11:11 PM
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Re: Aircraft pics
Andy,
Honestly, who else knew the difference before the age of cable TV & the internet...... Only geeks like us I guess.  Bill, About John Denver's father - I saw that a man with that last name did set a speed record in the B-58, but I just didn't make the connection. How in the world did you?  Nuch
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09-10-2007, 01:55 AM
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Re: Aircraft pics
Just one of those little bits of information I learned over the years.
By the way, the British jet bomber used in "Thunderball" was the Avro Vulcan. As for the name Vindicator, the real Vindicator was a US Navy late 1930s-early WWII single-engined dive-bomber similar in appearance to the Douglas SBD. The Vindicator saw use at Midway in June 1942 but was already obsolete.
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