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What's the secret to a good paper plane?

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Don't have me make it.

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Oh no. See, look at that, ugh, offside

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of wings already. It's terrible.

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Symmetry will be uh the correct answer.

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And you need some elevator. See in the

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back it's, that's I'm first Lieutenant

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Alexander Grant. I go by Stitch and I

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fly the Eurofighter typhoon for the

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mighty Lichen Wing in Germany. I am

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Captain Patrick Pierce. My call sign

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this Hobbit. I fly F-35s out of RF

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Lakenheath for this competition

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today. The way it was worked out is we

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were given a slip of paper. We had a

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location in which we're going to meet

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up at a certain altitude. We would not

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know who were fighting until we turned

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in and at the merge. So as our

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aircraft passed by each other, I'm

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like, oh boy, there's a Euro fighter

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which is actually pretty cool. I've

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never seen an F-35 so close. When

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we train in Germany, I only fight

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other Euro fighters and you don't

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really understand what your advantage

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is and today with the Euro fighter

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having a little bit more thrust than

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the F-35, for example, I could

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definitely understand what the

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advantage of my aircraft is and we were

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ever facing each other. He would

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probably kill me beyond visual range

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even before I even knew he was there

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because of stealth capability. I don't

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have that. So what it looked like

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today was a lot of, one of these

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maneuvers in which Stitch was saddled

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up behind me and is able to get a gun's

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employment. I can actually see the gun

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rounds counting down when I employ the

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gun. Even though it's not loaded,

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it's just simulated. You can just feel

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it in like the pit of your stomach.

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You're like, man, this guy just won

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the fight and it hasn't even ended yet

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for another like minute or so. So the

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entire goal is like, if you're

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defensive is to survive and then create

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an offensive scenario as much as

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possible. The best way to do that

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is put them out front. I wish now

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you're no longer defensive and you're

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at the defender, he will probably be

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able to tell that I'm going in for guns

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by pointing my aircraft at him and if

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I don't have my closure under control,

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I'm way too fast. He can basically

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just break and then I'm like, oh, I

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know I'm shooting behind his tail and

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now I'm defensive, you're underneath a

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lot of Gs. If you will, you're going

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through some pretty extreme flight

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dynamics. If you're 200 pounds, that

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equals 101,800 pounds of what your body

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feels like. At that time, you're

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looking behind, you're looking up,

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you're looking around and underneath

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that kind of strain, it puts a pretty

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big physical strain on your body. I

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would say I turned my head up to seven

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Gs after that. I don't do anymore,

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but that's not good for the neck.

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on three ready. All right 1, 2...

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Well done.