3 offspring are suing Yeager in ranch dispute (EXCERPT) Chuck Yeager, a World War II flying ace and the first test pilot to break the sound barrier, is being sued by three of his four children. Yeager's children are suing their father over ownership of a 3-acre, $1.35 million ranch in Penn Valley,...

"Vicente Vazquez" wrote in message ... I've only seen pics of P-47's with the 75 , 108 or 150 gallon drop-tank, but never seen this one ... http://www.aviacaomilitar.com.br/webkits/hc001.jpg Just a guess ... is...

Trying to make sense of Vietnam air war ` By Brian Richard Boylan, Special to The Denver Post Between 1965 and 1968, 330 F-105s were lost in Southeast Asia, the majority of them over North Vietnam. Many of the young pilots were killed, shot down, wounded or captured. Ed Rasimus, who today...

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...

I am wonderning what the top speed (in mph) a clean F-15C, Mirage 2000, F-16C, and MiG-29 could accelerate to in level flight at optimum altitude (not just sea level) without afterburner. I usually see the top clean speed and the top sea level speed (with afternburner?) quoted, but rarely the top...

"Bill Shatzer" wrote in message ... On 7 Mar 2004, Hal Lillywhite wrote: Bill Shatzer wrote in message ... ...

I would be very grateful if one or more of you would point your web browsers at 65.108.100.215 This is a mirror of the Warbird's Forum website. When I look at it, there are no images--only a Bill Gatesian red X where the image should be. When the hosting company looks at the page, the images are...

Just dropped by for a moment to take a look . Had a bit of aviation news but no sense posting it really. Take care all, Dudley Henriques International Fighter Pilots Fellowship Commercial Pilot/ CFI Retired For personal email, please replace the z's with e's. dhenriquesATzarthlinkDOTnzt

Ok, here goes... About 2 years ago I had a chance to buy some small radial engines at a car show, there were perhaps 25-36 inches accross, I cant remeber, I had a chance to buy em at $40 each and there were 10 or so in various states of disrepair, but since I had spent all my money alloted by...

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http://www.miramex.com.pl/jwsoft/1939/image/pzl62_01.JPG A strange old Polish guy sent me a drawing of this basically unknown aircraft and claimed that it would have swept the skies of the German invaders if it were built. He further claimed it would have been superior to the Spitfire. What is...

You know, soon alien will invade the world.Maybe 5-10 years from now, than it´s time. So do you think Earth planes, including prototypes and experimental planes could have a chance against UFOs if - UFOs have anti-grav - laser guns - space-flight abilities - possibly deflector shields

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&frame=right&th=cf755d076b7f66f0&seekm=56r2g3%24s45%40villa.fc.net#link1 There's the link. I'm hoping somebody here has that clip. I checked the link mentioned in the post that goes to but it's dead. The clip was of an AIM-47 being...

The below link is to the music video "Good Good America" by Cpl, John Preston and L.Cpl. Nick Hoffmann, 2nd Batt., 7th Marines, somewhere in western Iraq. The duo created the video because they were frustrated with the news media's narrow focus on US casualties to the exclusion of the broader...

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,...

Inspections are finding more of them every day... http://www.tech-sol.net/humor/funphoto97.htm -Jeff B. yeff at erols dot com

BOEING CO. won a $241.8 million contract to continue work on the ballistic missile-hunting Airborne Laser, a modified 747, the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency said on Monday. The contract, which runs through June 30, 2005, modifies an earlier agreement to account for cost adjustments to the...

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20031208-1459-cnsosprey.html "They decided not to finish a second phase of vortex ring state testing." -HJC

A interesting news story surfaced today .... it seems some Australian Army personnel who think getting drunk and torturing things.... is fun.. It shows how reckless theses people are. Makes one wonder what would they do if deployed overseas.......and were drunk???? Alcohol is NO EXCUSE for bad...

Chuck Yeager to help flying club in Germany celebrate its 50th, By Lisa Horn, Stars and Stripes (EXCERPT) European edition, Wednesday, June 9, 2004 Seven years after he broke the sound barrier in 1947, retired Air Force Gen. Chuck Yeager became involved with the German-American Soaring Club of...