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hartwell hartwell
 
M$4 April 14, 2009 04:52 AM

Please identify this story about a fighter pilot who flies his modern jet into WWI.

on Jerry Pournelle's web site, they have been talking about fighter jets and strategies. this came in from reader "RH" see: http://www.jerrypournelle.com/mail/2009/Q2/mail566.html (it's in the middle of Monday's posts)
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re kill ratio

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

TMTCTMTSTS

RH
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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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leesybee leesybee
 
 April 14, 2009 11:13 AM
Hi!

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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• fantastic, thanks. did you just happen to know that, or do you have a secret "look up a book by its plot" link?


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leesybee leesybee
 
April 15, 2009 06:58 AM
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!

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erickquest... erickquest...
 
April 14, 2009 06:06 AM
not sure about the story you asked about but there is a TWILIGHT ZONE episode with the same concept but it was a tank unit that went back to fight the indians.

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hartwell hartwell
 
April 14, 2009 07:40 AM
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/

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albanian albanian
 
April 14, 2009 01:44 PM
I don't recognize the particular story; but, I do recognize the genre. I have never liked it or seen much point in it myself. However, since you are interested I thought I'd point out the earliest example that I'm aware of which is in Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court" (1889). In that example the battle is between gatling guns and knights in armor.


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