when he ran out of bombs, so started blasting the enemy with the aircraft's cannon. "Was that," he wonders now, "a dumb, effective, admirable or reprehensible thing to do with a £20m aeroplane?" For someone as thoughtful and analytical as [David] Knowles, shock and awe was almost overwhelming.
But these are the poems of a professional fighter. The enemy, the target, the Iraqis beneath the Tornado's shadow, hardly get a mention.
from The Sunday Times: The Jet Man well versed about Iraq
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