Were any r.a.m. readers at Wright Patterson AFB in the early 1980s or working in the USAF Fighter-Attack System Program Office? I'm looking for anyone who may have worked there to discuss the Piper PA-48 Enforcer program and the USAF's view of it from inside. I've heard plenty about it from...

New aviation page! www.lwwo.slupsk.pl Many pictures of Polish MiG-21, MiG-29, Su-22.... Check It!

"rb" wrote in message ... Secondly, why wasn't the original JU-87 ever given retractable undercarriage, it must have impinged on performance considerably? Sure, it caused a lot of drag. I'd bet that it helped stabilized the aircraft in...

"Brett" wrote in message ... "Richard Johnson" wrote: OK, I've seen Stalag 17, The Great Escape, and Hart's War. I thoroughly enjoyed the first two, read up on the facts and researched...

"ArtKramr" wrote in message ... Subject: SHUT UP !!! YOU'LL JINX THE MISSION !!!! From: "Mike" Date: 8/8/2004 11:57 AM Pacific Standard Time Message-id:...

"Hobo" wrote in message ... Some people here have been claiming that the Iranians made effective and widespread use of the Phoenix missle against Iraq. I have always read that after the Shah fell US civilian...

"Hobo" wrote in message ... Would it have made more sense to have built the XB-70 instead of the B-2? With its speed and high altitude ability the XB-70 would have had much of the survivability of the B-2, perhaps at...

Just in the news during the last few days: The Dutch minister of Defence has announced (yet another) cutback. The Air Force will loose 29 F-16s, leaving 108 in service. Twente air base, which is one of three Dutch F-16 bases will be closed. Six out of 30 virtually brand-new AH-64Ds are to be sold...

Does anybody have any recent info on the stauts of the ABL programme? The latest I know is that the YAL-1 prototype has been flown, though as yet without many of the systems installed), production representative equipment was being installed in the fuselage of a grounded ex-Air India B747 and funds...

The Blue Angels are in St. Louis this weekend. Having seen several shows in past years, I'm surprised that they've flown only the "low show" here this year. Initially, I thought that perhaps the ceilings were marginal, but yesterday's weather was perfect. The only reasons I can think of: (a)...

We have a flap lever with the lockout broken. We want to remove the cover with out moving the landing gear cable. The cover has four screws looking down and two on each side left and right. How do we take this cover off?

Does anyone know if the DHC Twin Otter was/is ever been used by the US military? Thanks, Randy Farnsworth Author of "A Stand Yet Taken" http://randyfarnsworth.com/

I've had a questions I'd like to foist upon the collective knowledge here... I have a few of those "World's Worst Airplane" books and enjoy reading about the creations of those in the old days who were basically working by the seat of their pants. I've noticed that their were many planes during...

My gf has a kid who's an airplane nut. He just enrolled in JROTC in his high school and is suddenly motivated about school. He had a broken arm (skater d00d) that was repaired with the usual metal plates, which he still has. Should this impact his flight eligibility? She's got great...

Little missile, big-ish airplane. Countermeasures in the commercial fleet seems like an expensive proposition. One or two "successful" attacks (losses, even) wouldn't stop me from flying. -- -- Lynn Wallace http://www.xmission.com/~lawall "I'm not proud. We really haven't...

US F86 sabres shot down a lot of Mig 15s in the Korean War. The ratio was around 8 - 1. I recently watched a documentary about the confrontation between these two planes. Apparently they were quite evenly matched with the F86 having a slight overall advantage. In the end the high ratio...

My article in Hindustan Times on India-USA relations Published in Hindustan Times, Wednesday, 17 March 2004, edit page http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_621696,00120002.htm America's Two Timing by Ravi Visvesvaraya Prasad

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In the past ,our goverment paid to support craft aircraft {The project to have airlines support airlift }Is this system still in effect.what could you do to a 747 to make it meet the system. Just wondering. Ray

Are thoseC-130 still retained somwhere that libya purchased some years back and held by the US,or sold off.