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I think it looks exactly as big as I would expect it to look, given the angles involved, and given the fact that it was skidding along the ground without its landing gear.


Not too mention that at a bazillion miles per hour, the fuselage was probably already compressed vertically by 27 percent as soon as it touched the turf.

But I have another agenda! This thread is now *Mine*!

I can blame this thread for triggering a memory..... Some years ago, I read a mass-market spy novel....maybe one of the Gardner James Bond series, I can't remember. The fact that I can not remember, though, is bugging the hell out of me.

The scene that sticks in my mind, the denouement more or less, was when about 100-200 junior spy agency employees were loaded onto a jet airplane under false pretense with a couple of the main "good guy" characters standing on the tarmac chatting in hushed tones about how the jet was going to be purposefully crashed/destroyed (ummm, killing all those junior analysts) just to tie up a few loose ends of the story's main struggle.

So, does anyone remember this? Can you put me out of my misery?
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Jim


'Tis the exceptional fellow who lies awake at night thinking of his successes.