Air Force Print News for Feb. 10, 2004 A clean strut (Stand-alone photo)=A0 http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=3D123006950 Officials limit re-enlistment window to three months=A0 http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=3D123006942

THE PILOT WHO WOULDN'T FLY I am only telling you this story because he passed away two years ago. I won't reveal his identity. Let's call him Captain Johnson. Captain Johnson's plane was badly hit over the target. He and his crew bailed out. But Johnson never liked to keep his chute harness...

The mission was far into Germany at the very limit of our fuel reserves. I don't remember the target but I never will forget the return flight. B-26's carry bombardier navigators. Each one in the formation plots the flight as though he was flying lead. After we hit the target we turned toward...

60 years of hindsight with some revisionism thrown in have obscured the original intent of attacking an enemy from the air. I only flew one (of 50) mission over cloud cover using GEE. We didn't call it area bombing. We didn't call it blind bombing. Those are words are now used to stake out an...

From time to time I want to show You some of my new pictures. This time I have some new shots of WWII Hellcat over Camarillo and som nice shots of LAPD Astar helicopters over Los Angeles. http://air2air.net Enjoy it Cordially -- Mariusz Adamski http://air2air.net

"RENABORNEY" wrote in message ... STR reading that a total of two F-102's were lost in combat operations, one of which occured over NVN. l). I have not heard that it was used as an air superiority fighter per se (kind of...

In article , Dave Eadsforth writes: Good day, good people, I wondered if anyone out there (in all probability, Peter!) could help me understand more fully the process by which the Merlin engine was enabled to use 150...

In rec.food.cooking Mycroft wrote: Shocking! A politician lying............hang on a minute they do that for a living but are not supposed to get caught! It all stems from the fact that when honest politicians tell the truth, they get voted out of office. The truth...

Saw a photo yesterday of a WWII B-17 test aircraft powered with four Allison inline engines as opposed to the usual Wright Cyclones. Understand the modification added about 800 hp to the aircraft. Anyone know why the modification didn't go anywhere? The usual suspects? Too much disruption to...

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I'm pretty sure that Sunderland was the last name of one of the designers of the sunderland flying boat. I can't find any source other than a Wikipedia article concerning the origin of the name. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunderland), This article indicates that that the craft was named after...

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Does anyone know of German/French/Polish Aircrew Associations along the lines of the RAFA? We are organising a reunion of WWII RAF pilots and would like to invite former friends and foes from accross europe. --

Highest-Ranking Black Air Force General Credits Success to Hard Work (EXCERPT) By Rudi Williams American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 2004 * In his early teens, John D. Hopper Jr. thought he'd grow up to be a scientist or schoolteacher. But that changed in 1963 when a liaison officer...

PILOTS You see them at airport terminals around the world. You see them in the morning early, sometimes at night. They come neatly uniformed and hatted, sleeves striped; they show up looking fresh. There's a brisk, young-old look of efficiency about them. They arrive fresh from home, from hotels,...

After having been excoriated for saying that civil designs such as those envisioned for the MC2A and ACS have no business over the battlefield, this article gives me a bit of gratification: USAF Plans Serious Look At Replacing Special Ops Aircraft By Marc Selinger February 6, 2004 The U.S. Air...

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(Michael Petukhov) wrote in message ... For Whom the Death Tolls. Deliberate Undercounting of "Coalition" Fatalities Full of crap as usual. Defenselink reports daily the causalties of all US fatalities. Local Radio,...