# Great Planes is killing me

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 4, 2009, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-planes-is-killing-me/479781 "2009-01-04T04:48:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-planes-is-killing-me/479781/21 "2009-09-13T15:32:50Z")

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> [@RadioWave](#):
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> Hmmm. I could have misheard B-50A as B-58 but I think they said Convair and/or Hustler. I’ll have to watch it again.

saying the “Convair B-50A Hustler” would be a weird error to make, even if it is weird that both the B-29 and the B-50A had the same model name (though, from what I understand, the designs were close enough that the B-50A started out as the B-29E or somesuch)

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**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-planes-is-killing-me/479781/22 "2009-09-13T18:18:18Z")

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> [@Raguleader](#):
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> Does anybody have an opinion one way or the other on Dogfight on the History Channel?

I enjoy the program. I like when they feature WW1 combat planes, since there is almost no film of the great war’s air battles they make the Spads & Dr1s come live again.

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