Fighter jet crashes in Vernon Parish (EXCERPT) Pilot ejects, taken to Fort Polk hospital Louisiana Gannett News Posted on September 23, 2003 ROSEPINE - An F-16C fighter jet affiliated with the Texas Air National Guard crashed Monday afternoon in woods about two miles south-southwest of Rosepine...

Airmen gear up for another 120-day deployment (EXCERPT) By Jennifer H. Svan, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Wednesday, September 24, 2003 YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — As the Air Force scales back its forward-operating bases, deployments under the Aerospace Expeditionary Force construct should...

Hi there, Just wanted to point you to my airshow pictures at: http://www.dutch-it.com/photographs/ Thanks & hope you enjoy them, Roger

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Something I saw raised a question in my mind: An MD-80's T-tail had one half pitched up and the other half pitched about neutral. My question is why any T-tail aircraft would allopw differential motion of the two halfs of the horizontal stab? It seems to me that the rolling couple such a position...

Hi, I've posted my airshow images at http://www.dutch-it.com/photographs/ Hope you'll enjoy them. Roger

How accurate is that statement and did weather also account for more losses than combat in previous wars (e.g: WW2, Korea, etc?) My specialty is WWII nightfighting and I can say that, particularly in the first half of the war, as many a/c were lost or abandoned due to weather (or collisions in...

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According to the Edwards Open House website, they will fly the predator at the show. I've seen the predator fly at Indian Springs, so this won't be too exciting, but still it will be cool since they will relay video from the predator to the jumbotron. Now my question is has the predator been flown...

A Russian Tupolev-160 strategic bomber crashed in the Saratov Region on Thursday, the press service of the Russian Air Force has reported. "The fate of the four crewmembers is unknown. A search and rescue operation is underway at the scene. Information about casualties and damage at the crash site...

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Boeing built a single example of an upgraded F-4 phantom. It had the PW1120 turbojet derived from the F-100 engine on the F-15/F-16, a APG-65 radar, a MIL-STD databus, a conformal fuel tank holding an extra 1,110 gallons, and some other improvements. The Israelis had a similar upgrade called the...

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Hope this isn't a dupe, but I didn't see last nights post show up. http://www.lazygranch.com/sa.htm

Hobo wrote: If low wing loading is so important to a fighters maneaverability why don't all fighters have big wings and thus low wing loading? What are the drawbacks to big wings which make low wing loadings rare? Aerodynamic drag. -- cirby at cfl.rr.com

Air Force Academy Review Panel Delivers Report to DoD (EXCERPT) PRESS ADVISORY from the United States Department of Defense No. 117-03 PRESS ADVISORY Sep 22, 2003 Sep 22, 2003 The independent panel reviewing sexual misconduct allegations at the U.S. Air Force Academy delivered its final report...

Mexican military plane crash kills six (EXCERPT) MEXICO CITY, Sept. 20 — A Mexican air force transport plane has crashed in central Mexico killing all six crew members, authorities said on Saturday. The Hercules C-130 crashed 40 miles (70 km) south of the city of Zacatecas on Friday after dropping...

Gen. Charles A. Gabriel, 75, Former Member of Joint Chiefs, Dies (EXCERPT) By STUART LAVIETES en. Charles A. Gabriel, a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President Ronald Reagan and the first fighter pilot to serve as chief of the Air Force, died on Sept. 4 at an assisted-living center...

Richard Bernstein, NYT Reprinted in the International Herald Tribune. U.S. is losing the sympathy of the world BERLIN In the two years since Sept. 11, 2001, the view of the United States as a victim of terrorism that deserved the world's sympathy and support has given way in the months after the...