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Article: The Dragonfly Suit.(anti-gravity pilot suit, Libelle)
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- Newsweek International
- Article date:
- May 7, 2001
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American F-16 fighter planes and Soviet-built MiG-29s will scream through the skies of Nevada next month in a furious series of supersonic dogfights. It won't be the first time. In previous Red Flag exercises in the skies above Nellis Air Force Base, America's top guns have almost always had the technological edge. This time when the planes go into the wild high-speed twists and turns of close combat, things may be different. It's not that the MiGs have gotten better, or that the German Luftwaffe pilots who will be flying them are any more skilled than the Americans. The difference will be purely sartorial: the German pilots will be wearing better outfits.
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