The Longest War: Gray Ghost Squadron From the Webmaster: EXCERPT: "This is the Homepage of the Gray Ghost Squadron. A group of MARINES, and associates, who served in the United States Marine Corps Fighter Squadron 531(Grey Ghosts). The squadron was designated VMF(N)-531, VMF(AW)-531 and VMFA-531...

The Longest War: Drew's World of Choppers From the webmaster: EXCERPT: "Hear the thunder! Hear me retch. Forget Hollywood's square-jawed equestrians and their aluminum-alloy steeds, rotored or otherwise. Warfare is about people, and the people here are playing for keeps. Likewise the...

The Longest War: 176th Assault Helicopter Company From the Webmaster: (EXCERPT) From Fort Benning Georgia, to Phu Hiep, Duc Pho, Chu Lai, Republic of Vietnam. Although not assigned OPCON to the 101st Division along with the 14th CAB during Lam Son 719, the 176th AHC provided aircraft and crews...

In an effort to lighten things up ....(play on words) How many news group posters does it take to change a light bulb? 1 to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been changed 14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and

The Lie Factory By Robert Dreyfuss and Jason Vest Kwiatkowski, 43, a now-retired Air Force officer who served in the Pentagon's Near East and South Asia (NESA) unit in the year before the invasion of Iraq, observed how the Pentagon's Iraq war-planning unit manufactured scare stories about Iraq's...

The Shuttleworth Collection - http://www.shuttleworth.org/ Autumn Air Display Sunday 5th October 2003 Gates Open 9AM Flying Starts 2PM The last air display of 2003 will close our anniversary flying season with more great flying, a vehicle parade as well as trade stands and the jubilee play centre...

"Oelewapper" wrote What's going on here ?? It's called a war. Go hide in a corner with your duct-tape.

The full text and illustrations of the book "The Jet Makers, The Aerospace Industry from 1945 to 1972" is now online at www.generalatomic.com/jetmakers/index.html

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING IN MARAUDERS When we were all in cadet school at Big Spring, what we talked about most was what type of aircraft we would be assigned to; B-17, B-24, B-25, A-20 or the grand prize of all; the fast, hot B-26 Martin Marauder. As the term went on and we approached graduation...

Take the thousands of tactical missions flown against targets behind the Normandy beaches to deny the Germans access cutting of re-enforcements. Bridges, railines, marshalling yards. crossroads, ordnance depots, choke points, ammo dumps, fuel dnmps, gasometer farms all destroyed contributing...

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http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123007285 Lockheed Martin originally contracted with the U.S. Marine Corps to build the STOVL variant of the F-35 to replace the aging AV-8B Harrier. The Air Force will take over the program in June, as part of the service’s commitment to improving...

The following was first posted on 29 december 2000. It remains just as important today: Making Sure Every Military/Veteran Vote Counts, by Phill Coleman Slightly under ten years ago a perceptive Vietnam vet, now working for an agency of the Veterans Administration, clearly recognized the need for...

I think it will lose any fight against a French Mirage, because the French planes are much superior.

Does it move when say when the pilot wants to climb, or does it have pressure sensors on a rigid stick so the stick can inform the computers the pilots hand is pressing on the front of the stick and he wants the F-16 to climb? Christopher +++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Kites rise highest against the...

OK. I have seen the debate over GWB as an F-102 pilot, so I was wondering about a couple of things. First, was the F-102 taken out of service in the early 1970s? I have to ask because as a kid I remember the Guard around here flying F-106s up to around 1990 or 1991 or so, and they were closely...

From today's Aero-News email newsletter: The End Of Manned Fighters? F-35 Will Be Last Of Traditional Aircraft The top gun of the future will be a robot - not your hormone-pumping human aviator. Unmanned aircraft will be the key to the modern battlefield as the traditional fighter aircraft is...

Two Bad Days Over the Deadly RR Bridges Railroad bridges were brutally defended. Knock out a RR bridge and you have cut transport for possibly hundreds of miles . And while repairing track took only a few hours. rebulding a RR bridge over a river or chasm might take weeks. We had some of our...

The Day the 344th Stopped Patton Patton treasured the German autobahns. To him they were high speed highways where he could charge forward at full tilt, covering miles of territory, sweeping enemy forces in his path. But Patton never took A.A. Robinson into account. A.A. Robinson, Lt. Robinson...

In other voice votes, the Senate approved: Up to $2 million for aircrew bladder relief device kits http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4241937,00.html