>>F-16 destroyed by a Hurricane? Well it wouldn't have stood a chance against a Spitfire then! :-)
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>That's correct. Not only the simulator. True story:
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>I was on this VIP group tour. This was about 6 months before Andrew and they took us into a hangar where there was an F-16 parked with a ladder to the cockpit. We took turns to go up the ladder and look (not sit) inside the real plane. While it was my turn to wait, I asked a Lt. Coronel,

Was he Japanese? :-)

>the tour guide, about hurricanes. "Not to worry", he said, "this hangar is hurricane-proof". Famous last words.

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>When the storm came, all flyable planes were flown out to Eglin Air Force base. Three F-16s that were under repair and not-flyable where left in those hangars. They picked up the pieces up to half-mile away afterwards.

lol

This reminds me of one of the BBC's most long-standing and loved forecaster, Michael Fish - his comments on air the night of the great hurricane in the S. England and parts of France:

Weather forecasters were heavily criticised after the event, TV weatherman Michael Fish came in for a large amount of criticism after he answered a viewers query, "Earlier on today apparently a lady rang the BBC and said she heard that there was a hurricane on the way. Well don't worry if you're watching, there isn't."

That night (I was in the thick of it) 15 million trees were knocked down!