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Oct 18^th, 2012 at 5:39pm

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I've just watched a most excellent documentary about Robin Olds and his mischief in Vietnam. What a genius! What a great leader of men.
For those of you who were like me until an hour ago languishing in ignorance check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Olds

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Reply #1 - Oct 18^th, 2012 at 6:43pm

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Seen him in a few documentaries and read his book, truly a one off. Can I ask what the documentary was called is it still available.

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Rich

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Reply #2 - Oct 19^th, 2012 at 5:01am

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It was on Channel 5 and the series is called Heroes of The Skies.
If you're not in the UK I don't know if you'll be able to watch the program online or not. You might need to use a UK proxy to get around that one.... but it'll need to be one with good speed.
I'm just hoping they release the whole series on DVD 'cos I know I'd buy them. They've been excellent thusfar, yesterdays was the first non-WWII episode.

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Reply #3 - Oct 19^th, 2012 at 4:08pm

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Cheers for that, just watched it on 5 Demand good program. Cool

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Rich

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
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Reply #4 - Oct 19^th, 2012 at 4:17pm

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You're welcome mate. The whole series is excellent Wink

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Reply #5 - Oct 20^th, 2012 at 11:05am

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Good ol' Col Robin Olds!
After Operation Bolo the media was interviewing him and asked about the operation's success, Olds' response was short and sweet:

"The Migs came up. We Tangled. They lost"
Cool

‎"At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation."- Igor Sikorsky

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