Hmm..Fighter Ops must be rolling over in its grave..

I just did a search on betterwhois.com

F18c.com is showing as available ... NOT as being reserved by ED, or anyone else.

f-18c.com is



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Last updated on 2012.06.16 11:46:44 MSK/MSD

Okay... I've been on and off with this but I started wondering about the Phantom. We're all talking about F-18s and F-15s but if they dropped back to the P-51 perhaps the pursuit of the MiG-21 would lead to ol' smokey coming back online?

Yikes... wouldn't THAT be something?