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Your Online Marketplace for Classified Jet Parts

Posted by timothy on from the flux-capacitor-shipped-separately dept.

jonerik writes: "Reuters is reporting that the U.S. Air Force is less than pleased about the recent posting of a number of sensitive jet communications components on eBay, including parts for the SR-71 spy plane, the F-16 fighter, the KC-10 tanker, and the giant C-5 transport. According to the article, the parts had sat in a warehouse for 12 years after being lost in shipping when the dealer, Norb Novocin, bought the lot for $244 in an unclaimed property sale. Novocin ended up selling four of the items to bidders in a recent auction, including an X-Band Weather Radar Modulator for $500 and a high-frequency radio circuit card for $32. The Air Force is looking into the incident and Novocin is cooperating."

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  1. Cooperation by mstyne · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Air Force is looking into the incident and Novocin is cooperating.

    Air Force: "You should be seeing a squadron of B-2 Spirits flying over your corporate headquarters in about ten minutes."

    Novocin: "Um, yeah, so whaddya wanna know?"

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    mstyne: real name, no gimmicks
  2. Sign of the times.. by k98sven · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow is the world changing, you can buy -everything- online now..

    (shameless plug..)
    I remember, back during the Cold War, we didn't have the internet,
    we had to sell these things at secret meetings with the "attaché for tourism" from the embassy of some shady nation..

    You had to get plane tickets to all these wierd,
    exotic locations like Geneva and the Caribbian, to meet these jerks. (They never even said thanks)

    Nowadays, I don't even have to leave my nice CIA office, and I always get the best price for my contraband! Ebay is great!

    (/shameless plug)