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Transcript: Commentary: Being caught in sonic boom of an F-16 fighter jet
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- February 3, 2004
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BOB EDWARDS
Morning Edition (NPR)
02-03-2004
Commentary: Being caught in sonic boom of an F-16 fighter jet
Host: BOB EDWARDS
Time: 10:00-11:00 AM
BOB EDWARDS, host:
Few civilians have access to the places where military pilots fly training missions. Commentator Craig Childs has been there, studying wildlife in restricted areas of the southern Arizona desert.
CRAIG CHILDS:
As I walked through the bombing range, I passed the strewn wreckage of a crashed fighter jet, and the occasional unexploded missile. The decrepit state of these objects made the place seem even more otherworldly, as if any piece of machinery to touch ground was instantly chewed apart by erosion and the winds. I had ...