Airmen deliver 35,000 helmets to Afghanistan http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123008060 {EXCERPT} by Capt. Chris Watt U.S. Air Forces in Europe Public Affairs 6/29/2004 - MIHAIL KOGALNICEANU AIR BASE, Romania (AFPN) -- Airmen flew more than 35,000 Romanian military helmets to Afghanistan...

This has to be the most acitve and responsive threads in the history of this NG. And it has only been around for about two weeks if that. I guess it goes to the very core of widespread aviation interests generating passion, flames as well as thoughtful gentlemanly responses. And it all started...

Does anyone know the name of the Air Force logistic or transport squadron, active in the 1960's, whose patch featured an elephant carrying a log with its trunk?

"WASHINGTON, June 22 — Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz, a prime architect of the Bush administration's Iraq policy, said Tuesday that the Pentagon had underestimated the violent tenacity of an insurgency that formed after Baghdad fell, and he acknowledged that the United States may be...

OK, trying a new heading, just in case: I am debating online with somebody who claims the descending turn of the Boeing 757 over the DC mall was some aerobatic maneuver. I am betting a 757 can do that without unduly stressing the plane, in emergency conditions. He turned 270 degrees in 2.5...

"= Vox Populi ©" Vox Populi ©" Do you like airplanes? Thx, VL

Interesting article in this months issue of Aerospace Engineering on 100 years of unmanned flight in America. Well worth a look. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

For those who are interested in military aviation from roughly the 1930s to the 1950s, Tom Frisque, formerly of Aviation Usk, is auctioning off his entire personal book collection. This is an amazing collection that covers just about every aspect of aviation during that period, all over the...

Airmen survive terrorist attack by being fit to fight http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123007989 {EXCERPT} , By Staff Sgt. Melanie Streeter Air Force Print News 6/18/2004 - WASHINGTON -- In the early morning hours of May 30, an Airman lay in a dusty maintenance room of a building in...

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REMEMBER JANE REMEMBER JANE KEEP THIS MOVING; ACROSS AMERICA HONORING A TRAITOR This is for all the kids born in the 70's that do not remember this, and didn't have to bear the burden, that our fathers, mothers, and older brothers and sisters had to

Bush's National Guard Record Back In The Critical Spotlight http://www.turkishpress.com/turkishpress/news.asp?ID=26605 {EXCERPT} Turkish Press, Turkey - 1 hour ago BOSTON, Massachusetts, Sept 8 (AFP) - Fresh questions were raised Wednesday over George W. Bush's national guard service during the...

Air Force Print News for March 22, 2004 Back home again (Stand-alone photos) http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123007262 We have liftoff (Stand-alone photo) http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123007260

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A HERO OF THE SOVIET UNION. Authors: Rogers, Rodney1,2 Source: Air Power History; Winter 2003, Vol. 50 Issue 4, p46, 10p People: MOSOLOV, Georgi K. Abstract: The article focuses on chief test pilot for the MiG Georgi K. Mosolov. Mosolov was born in Ukraine and was enlisted in the Soviet army at the...

As Art so often says, we can't forget absent friends. I would like to remind the world of the loss of Mike Bumanglag, US Navy, and his pilot, LCDR Dick Carlson. I didn't know Commander Carlson well, but his family seemed to love him fiercely. Mikey was a comrade and a humane person doing a...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,125860,00.html I haven't seen the Twinkee Moore's film, but I've met this General. Thank you, Sir. As commander of the 8th Air Force, I was present when President Bush stopped to deliver a message to the American people at Barksdale Air Force Base. Throughout...

Considering we have flown a B-52 to Russia as a symbol of goodwill (I guess). I have always hoped that we might be able to obtain a Tu-95 for permanent display in a US museum as it was so prominently used and intercepted by US aircraft in the cold war. Has anyone ever heard of an attempt to get a...

Hi Art I know you flew or were in B26's; did you fly with or know/meet any of the Tokyo raiders,such as Ski York, Col' Frank Keppeler? Later in the war they were transferred to England and the ETO and flew B26's out of England,France and Belgium,just wondered whether you knew any of them. Mark.

How many bombers (Lancasters, Halifaxes, Stirlings, Mosquitoes) Bomber Command had in say, January 1945? Drax remove JAMRZIMSPAM for reply