Please identify this story about a fighter pilot who flies his modern jet into WWI.
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There was an SF story about a pilot in a fancy jet fighter who got knocked back in time to WW1. He went up to fight a wing of enemy WW1 fighters and saw nothing on his radar and landed very disappointed. But everyone was cheering because he had blown the entire flight out of the sky
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now, I know that TMTC... means, "The more things change, the more they stay the same." but who wrote that story, and what is its title? (Sounds a bit like the premise of _The Final Countdown_ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080736/
any ideas?
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The book you are referring to is called The Hawk among the Sparrows by Dean McLaughlin.
McLaughlin won a 1969 Hugo Award for Best Novella for this story.
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/dean-mclaughlin/hawk-among-sparrows.htm: In "Hawk Among the Sparrows," a fighter jet carrying nuclear-missiles is thrown back through time and pitted against World War I airplanes. What chance do wood and cloth planes have? You'll be surprised.
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Ah yes. I happened to hear that episode re-done as a radio play about a year ago.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734627/
The 7th Is Made up of Phantoms (1963)
Radio Play: http://www.twilightzoneradio.com/template/store.cfm/ses_/details.cfm,list,x,0,0,5004-7,x,x,x/
Thanks! I am so excited ... you are the first person to give me credit for a best answer (I only signed up yesterday and was a bit sceptical at first).
In reply to your question, no, I didn't know the answer straight off, and no, no secret link. Just some patient Googling :)
Thanks again!