[R-390] G-8 Summit Security...

[Richard Loken]

On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, blw wrote:

> The Germans did call them Widow Makers. It was Kiowas that I flew in
> Germany. A models for the most part.

F-104's had a reputation in Canada as a widow maker also but it is only 
perception, they had a loss rate that was equivelent to any other post-war
fighter.  

Perceptions are almost never based on reality, I recently heard
a sociologist saying that surveys have found that over 50% of residents of
Canadian cities think it is unsafe to walk to the corner store after dark -
it doesn't matter if the city is Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, or Moose Jaw
(population: 40,000 and all of them over 90).  70% of people over
retirement age think its unsafe.
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   Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS  
   Athabasca University
   Athabasca, Alberta Canada
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