Ö§âmâ ßíñ Këñoßí (the pencil-dick idiot) wrote: Texas for the oil mafia there, Don't you know, there are more "oil-men" in Oklahoma. California for Hollywood and the music industry Don't you know, most of them have moved to Montana & Idaho

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 15:58:35 +0200, "Peter Glasø" pgglaso @ broadpark.no wrote: Apparently,the austrian politician Anton Gaal has quoted an article in Der Spiegel,saying the eurofighter won't be allowed to take off in conditions f -5 degrees celsius,or in fog.Sounds rather incredible - what...

from http://www.washtimes.com/national/inring.htm Pilot's defense Air National Guard Maj. Harry Schmidt's defense team has filed a ream of pretrial motions as the court battle heats up in the antiterror war's most infamous case of fratricide. We obtained copies via an Air Force source. The Air...

India had five Il-38s. Two were lost in a mid-air collision. This leaves three Il-38s and eight Tu-142s to patrol a long coast line. In addition, the Tu-142 are not very well equipped for maritime patrol. Despite what the article says, production switched from the P-3B to P-3C in 1969. Hence,...

Air Force Print News for Sept. 11, 2003 9-11 remembered (Stand-alone photos) http://www.af.mil/stories/story.asp?storyID=123005597 Airmen remember pain of Sept. 11 http://www.af.mil/stories/story.asp?storyID=123005590

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s945068.htm

From: (Michael Petukhov) Nice war - here's the billsnip Or, with the upcomming war against North Korea, we can just explain to the Iraqis that they've become just too much of a drain on our resources, pull all our...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch has signed a $1 million agreement with Alfred A. Knopf, giving the injured former U.S. Army private the chance to tell her own story, the publisher said on Tuesday. all the best -- Dan Ford email: www.danford.net/letters.htm#9 see the...

I know it's just "Popular Mechanics", but the idea seemed pretty good. The Army is looking into adding a big set of rotor blades on the roof of a C-130 Hercules for the purpose of forward supply of its units. The blades would have small jets faired into their tips providing the spin. This would...

Anyone else noticed the odd coincidence of the NYC atrocity with Amerikkka's cynical destruction of Chile's elected government to be replaced by military dictatorship? John

For a couple of days I can't access www.af.mil. It seems to have vanished from DNS servers around the world. I somehow found an IP address for it and the site is there and working. But the af.mil doesn't resolve to an address. What is your experience? Boyan

I have read that Luftwaffe pilots were surprised by the ruggedness and armor of the Ilyushin 2 Stormovik and it took some time for them to understand and exploit its few weaknesses namely the exposed oil cooler. German ground troops are supposed to have feared the Stormovik more than any other...

http://www.isayeret.com/weapons/assault/tavor/tar-m203.jpg Hopefully, the last thing he sees before being killed outright or choppered out and dumped in some remote foreign location outside Israel. That's if the IDF Merkava 4s don't take turns blasting his compound as Puma assault vehicles storm...

Are there any web sites detailing the military equipment available to each nation? Some place I could look up the number of L.A. class subs in the US navy or Mig-29s in the Russian air force. -Thanks

I'm Hit!, I'm Hit! Bob slammed back his copilots seat and threw his hands over his face."I'm hit! I'm hit!" he shouted. I whirled around to see Bob over my right shoulder from my position in the nose. Bob was writhing in pain holding his head. Then Paul came on the intercom, "There's no blood,...

In article , Hobo wrote: If a country had zero interest in offensive actions and was only interested in defense, would putting money into military aircraft instead of a SAM system make any sense? Yep. Pure defense...

A Hungarian colleague of mine, Károly Vándor, has recently self-published his book about Soviet Air Forces in Hungary and Austria, between 1944 and 1991. This is a very scarce book, printed in very limited number. The book is large format (11 3/4 in. x 8 1/4 in., or 297 mm x 210 mm), soft cover,...

Navy hopes blimp can be eye in the sky (EXCERPT) Airship equipped with sensor array, by James W. Crawley UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER September 10, 2003 The Navy is experimenting with something more familiar to football

On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Charles Talleyrand wrote: Imagine four your favorite combat aircraft of 1963 going up against four modern F/A-18s in a BVR engagement. Suppose that the 1963 pilots were smart and willing to employ the best tactics available. Even so we suppose the F-18s win almost every...

Hi all! I'm looking for HIGH QUALITY video clips of the P-38 Glacier Girl and the Texas Me 262 to be shown in the local aviation guild's meeting. Anything on the web, somewhere, anyone? Please? jok