On 11/12/2010 10:39 AM, Rick Jones wrote:

Probably. Very Probably. Heck, Almost Certainly even. the US no
doubt have an exellect air defense system, but I will remind folks
about:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Rust

As one member of the Soviet government at the time said; "It was
hooliganism; but it was _magnificent_ hooliganism."
The flight not only made the Soviet military look pretty silly, but also
made Reagan's giant defense build-up look pretty silly also, with
numerous cartoons showing his Cessna with captions like: "New Stealth
Bomber". :-D

Pat