Interview with Zabelin GPW and KW ace.

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Nah, I can drive or ride a bike at that altitude.

Military aviation has always -- by primary budget expenditure -- been focused on ENERGY -- Higher-Faster-Further -- until about 1960 when it died off, replaced with ballistic missiles and plastic planes designed around Lower-Slower-Same, the Japanese Zero concept or "Samaurii Warrior" Turn And Boyd dogfighting under a ballistic missile umbrella.