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Date:      Mon, 04 Nov 2002 16:57:21 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "T.M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: -current marcketting name?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20021104165721.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <3DC6E578.EE0B48D4@mail.ptd.net>

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On 04-Nov-2002 T.M. Sommers wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
>> 
>> On 04-Nov-2002 Terry Lambert wrote:
>> > Ollivier Robert wrote:
>> >> According to Kyle Martin:
>> >> > 5.Doh! with a new beastie mascot pic found at:
>> >>
>> >> If you want a mascot, take this then:
>> >>
>> >> <http://www.neverland.net/bellamy/>;
>> >>
>> >> (drawing made for BSDCon Europe although that one is wearing even less)
>> >>
>> >> (B. Bellamy is a well known french comic artist, drawing his models in
>> >> several magazines -- including Linux ones)
>> >
>> > Looks like a World War II B-52 bomber logo.  Probably offensive
>> > to Nazis...
>> 
>> B-29 or some such maybe.  The first B-52's were built in the 50's.
>> AFAIK the US didn't have jet-powered bombers during WWII.  I think
>> the first jet-powered fighters were used in the Korean War to
>> counter Mig's.  (Putting on my history-channel watching hat.)
> 
> The Germans had the Me-262 during the war, but fortunately misused it so
> that it didn't wipe the skies clear of Allied aircraft.  The Americans
> and British had jets under development during the war, but they did not
> become operational until 1946 or thereabouts.

Yes, I should have clarified the last to say "..the first [US] jet-powered
fighters were used [in action] in.."

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