On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 02:49:41 -0700, "Bob (not my real pseudonym)"
<invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 05:23:46 -0700, Charles Lindbergh
><spirit@stlouis.com> wrote:
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>>On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 22:43:45 -0700, "Bob (not my real pseudonym)"
>><invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 12:32:59 +0100, JR <jr@somewhere.cox> wrote:
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>>>>On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 01:02:25 -0700, "Bob (not my real pseudonym)"
>>>><invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
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>>>>><here@glorious-somerset.uk> wrote:
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>>>>>>Enjoy:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>https://www.youtube.com/embed/0px9HFIVYjY?feature=player_embedded
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>>>>>
>>>>>For an outfit that sells canned bat piss, Red Bull has an impressive
>>>>>"air force".
>>>>
>>>>Their lineup of old warplanes is stagering. Bet there are quite a few
>>>>museums drooling...
>>>
>>>I'm a bit of a historical accuracy nut - and happy to tell other folks
>>>how to spend their money - but I wish Red Bull would tone down the
>>>company logo on the warbirds. The Sea Vixen repaint was a travesty.
>>
>>Red Bull claims them as a business expense, advertising and marketing
>>to be exact. The logos are so prominent simply because, if they were
>>not, the IRS would look unfavorably upon such fanciful accounting.
>
>And many of them would likely be rotting in a field somewhere as well,
>but... They don't even get out to my corner of the US, anyway.
With the value of these aircraft, I doubt many would be out rotting in
fields any more.
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