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Old 06-11-2013, 04:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Spudkopf View Post
a deliberate act by the pilot (like a sign of surrender),

Um, that was not a clip from a video game. It's war, no real combat pilot would take the gear comming down to have any meaning other than system failure due to damage.
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