Channel 2 in Los Angeles had their news helicopter taping the landing of a B-17 at the Van Nuys airport this afternoon and got more excitement than expected. The plane's main landing gear collapsed on both sides during rollout. According to the TV station's copter pilot, the B-17 is named "Aluminum...

Vietnam era F-4 guys got anyone interested. The 8th Black Sheep guys are now flying F-117s. ******* Blacksheep, Some sad news; Paul Chase passed away on Tuesday June 24th. I have included an email from Les Prichard, a mutual friend. Jon Davis, Ed DiBello and I plan to attend the memorial and...

Patrick AFB, NASA-KSC Area Log - Tuesday 09 March 2004 Several AWACS acft worked many many fighters all day long, multiple tankers serviced the aircraft; it was possible to only log some of the endless activity. All the inland ranges and offshore areas were active. For the second consecutive day,...

FoxNews: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,91334,00.html Report: Seven Killed at Mississippi Defense Plant Tuesday, July 08, 2003 MERIDIAN, Miss. — A gunman opened fire at a Lockheed Martin plant

For all the talk about Meteors shooting down V-1s, I was amused to see that there was no Meteor V-1 "ace". (One pilot did manage to account for four.) Most of the V-1 aces flew Griffon-engined Spitfire XIIs, Spitfire XIVs, and Tempest Vs. The other successful aircraft were Mosquitoes (at night)...

All Vietnam Veterans Were Awarded The Vietnam Cross of Gallantry Awarded to members of the Armed Forces of the United States for valorous achievement in combat during the Vietnam conflict, March 1, 1961 through March 28, 1973. Every American who served in Vietnam was awarded the Vietnam Cross...

....we were hanging in lake st. clair yesterday (located a few miles northeast of detroit and a few miles from selfridge ANG). during the course of the day there were several overhead passes by F16s and an occasional C130 approaching the base. then i looked directly above and saw the...

Take a look at this 737 belly landing video clips. http://radioscanning.wox.org/Scanner/Sounds/video/737gear.mpeg On a first sequence it appears the pilot is trying to get the gear unjammed by bouncing the aircraft on the good landing gear. The second sequence shows the actual landing. But I am...

After 23 years, Marines get last Super Stallion CH-53E helicopter (EXCERPT), by Holly Hickman ASSOCIATED PRESS 7:19 p.m. November 24, 2003 NEW RIVER MARINE CORPS AIR STATION, N.C. – The CH-53 helicopter is built for heavy loads – carrying the weight of four decades, three wars and dozens of...

Just when did various nations adopt the various cross and cockade or roundel insignia? Was it after WW1 started and the need for recognition became apparent or did some nations adopt an insignia before WW1? When did the US adopt the Star with a dot insignia? I know that they used a roundel style...

How close to the original Wright Flyer is the new replica? Is it also true that the reason it won't fly is that modern flyers can't mimic the Wright brothers art of handling wing warp as good or that the conditions for modern flight HAVE to be better than in 1903? Will the replica attempt to fly...

Now that's a pretty low flypast, no wonder the presenter's crapping himself. http://www.airshows.tv/vids/ohmygod.wmv -- James... http://www.jameshart.co.uk/

Anyone know anything about this piece of test equipment? I have one in good working condition and would like to know what it is used for and if it still has a usefull value. Any help would be apreciated. CONRAC CORP COMPUTER TEST SET P/ N 3052900 S/ N 0006. TEST SET,COMPUTER Manf: INTERSTATE...

Monday, 20 October 2003 134/2003 DEFENCE SUPPORT TO US PRESIDENT'S VISIT The Australian Defence Force will provide a comprehensive package of security support for the United States President's visit to Australia this week, Defence Minister Robert Hill announced today. "Defence will play a key...

I stumbled up on an A-26 site earlier & it mentioned that 130 (I think) A-26s had been ordered by the RAF but were later diverted to the Navy or something. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone's ever seen a paint scheme for the Invader B. Mk. 1. Sand & spinach over sky, or what? might look pretty cool.

I had a wound over my eyebrow which required six stitches while serving in Viet Nam and I didn't get a purple heart. I think the fact that Kerry's PH was issued in spite of the fact that his lesser wound resulted from misemployment of his own weapon indicates that I should have received the PH as...

http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/07/25/nuns.missilesilo.ap/index.html President "Bush has said weapons of mass destruction are horrible and I agree," she said. "We haven't found any in Iraq, but we sure have lot of them here."

Why didn't it have an internal bomb-bay? It certainly looks like it had the capacity. The only photos I've ever seen have it hauling two bombs underwing... -- http://www.delversdungeon.dragonsfoot.org Remove the X's in my email address to respond. "Damn you Silvey, and your endless fortunes."...

Someone tried to insult me by saying I was in the same class as Henriques. I am proud to be in his class. It is a very small class of a select chosen few. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

I ran into quite a few guys who flew P-39's. The all said the same thing. It had dangerous flat spin characteristics. . Benig bombardier I asked, "what the hell is .that?" They explained. I don't remember what they said so I can't explain it here. But I am sure guys like Ed and Dudley...