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with him a sting all the way. And even though it was much heavier, you name it. Like I say, he loved the plane. But he also flew close ground support. And his comment about the 51 was that it's a great fighter, absolutely out of this world. But when you're playing close ground support, with all the cooling on the bottom of the plane, it was too easy to shoot down. So they'd come back with jugs that were half missing, and they'd still fly. That the 51, you'd get a few rounds through the bottom of the fuselage, and you were done. And so he wasn't really fun to the 51. And as far as the 38, he always wanted to fly a 38, and they wouldn't let him. It's one of the very few planes he has not flown. And I was just like, he has no idea why, but they would never let him get in a 50.