Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 10:06:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Spy plane crash?

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, ecf wrote:

> According to this report, a U2 Spy plane run by the US Air Force has
> crashed in 'southeast asia'.
>
> I thought that all the U2s had been retired several years ago.
> Hhhhmmm...????
>
They were.  The plane that looks and functions just like the old U-2 is
the ER-1 (for "electromagnetic reconaissance").  Complete difference, see?

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