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Old 19 December 1999, 03:14 PM   #5
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In early 1970 I hitched a ride to the kibbutz I was working on in Israel, and the driver was a pilot from the neighboring airbase where newly delivered Phantoms were based.
During our brief conversation, I asked him what the top speed of the Phantom was. His reply was a very terse "Don't ask."
Oh, well, I got the answer from that week's issue of Time Magazine. You can go overboard with security precautions sometimes.
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