I reside about 6 miles off the departure end of MSP runway 12, so I'm used to hearing a lot of jet traffic. I've only lived here for 6 months but I quickly adjusted to the noise. It's acutally not that bad, excepting the venerable DC-9. Today, though, what looked like an F-18 flew over. Wow. I...

Hi all, We just updated our website with a review and pictures from the stunning show at Ronneby in Sweden three weeks ago. Hope you all like them! www.afterburner.nl/ronneby.htm Fred & Maurice.

I thought congress put a cap on the program cost and basically said "this is how much you get for the program, buy however many you can with it". That being the case why is congress bitching and moaning about it (not to mention the idiots at POGO) again? If they cost a billion a pop for the...

Do you happen to have the URL for the Al Jazeera photos that they took of the dead soldiers from the 507th Maintenance Company that were captured alive and later murdered and mutilated.....you know....the photos showing the dead American male soldiers with their penises cut off and the photos with...

The Douglas F4D Skyray had high performance in its day, holding several time-to-climb records that were not broken until the Phantom II was built. Was the Skyray ever flown in simulated air combat maneuvering against other fighters? If so, how well did it perform? Thank you, Peter...

Greetings all! I've just uploaded the new A6M5 walkaround of the last authentic airworth A6M5 from the Planes of Fame Museum. Check it out at www.cybermodeler.com! Cheers! Michael Benolkin

http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-43362sy0jul13,0,5541344.story?coll=dp-headlines-topnews The long-awaited F/A-22 Raptor fighter jets will not arrive at Langley Air Force Base until next May -about five months later than previously planned. Has any other aircraft program ever been delayed this...

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/01/science/space/01ORBI.html?ex=1057636800&en=e08df88fc4310282&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE Rob

Anyone have any information on how they feel Fort Rucker will fare in the next round of Base Realignment and Closure. What are its strenths and what are in weaknesses, and what are its major threats? Any information is appreciated.

http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/annex/an51.htm .... more "borrowed" German-tech courtesy of Dr. Alexander Lippisch. From the Lippisch DM-1/P.13 we got the XF-92, F-102, F-106, and B-58. Rob

yes sea harriers have been used in air to air combat during the falklands war in 1982 against the argentinian mirages and were quite successful. "Boyan Brezinsky" a écrit dans le message de ... I know this has been discussed ad...

Only in an election year ruled by fiction could a sissy who used Daddy's connections to escape Vietnam turn an actual war hero into a girlie-man. As we leave the scripted conventions behind us, that is the uber-scenario that has locked into place, brilliantly engineered by the president of the...

"Linda Terrell" wrote in message ... what's wrong with ending a war as quickly as possible and avoiding a costly invasion? We had a weapon that could end that war in a matter of weeks...

"JDupre5762" wrote in message ... Did the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force and the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force operate any of the same make of aircraft? It seems to me that that at least with some combat aircraft the...

LAUNCH ALERT Brian Webb Ventura County, California E-mail: Web Site: http://www.spacearchive.info 2004 March 24 (Thursday) 20:47 PST ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Is it Concorde? Or is it the Lamborghini Countach? The F-16? F-23? Grantland

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...

My son was asking me about ejecting from jet aircraft. He's 8, and he's convinced that no matter how fast an airplane is going, it's possible to eject. I said I didn't think that the guy who was flying the MiG-25 at Mach 3+ was able to eject from his aircraft with the runaway engines (if that's...

Taiwan to make parts for new Bell military helicopters (EXCERPT) TAIPEI (Reuters) - Two Taiwan companies have signed a US$10 million deal with the Bell Helicopter unit of Textron Inc to make parts used in its latest generation of military helicopters, officials said on Friday. State-run Aerospace...

I don't know much about Spits other than how they perform as fighter cover. But I am curious about the concept of " Long Range" as applied to Spits. I had never heard that phrase during the war.Is it a phrase only used on this NG or is it a commonly used term about a special class of Spits?. And...