What do you do when you
lose two GE J85-21A jet engines for your F-5Es?
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You ask the
Americans and they won’t sell them to you due to security reasons and the
Russians don’t have any engines that fit.
You then turn to the
French (you have a very good military equipment related working relationship
with them) and they agree to supply you with 2 turbo props.
After paying the
engine supplier, the French agent, the local agent and a foreign language
translator, you get your engines.
You then bolt
on the engines, give it a new paint job and pass it on to the air-force academy
to be used as a trainer.
Brilliant!
Happy
2010.
KH Lee
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