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...

Does anyone have information on the RAF Beam/Blind Approach Training flights? When they were created, disbanded and what formation they reported to? I am after the ones attached to Bomber Command, the 1501 to 1521 and 1535 flights. The earlier flights were known as 1 through 7 or 8 flight and in...

Did you see the latest polls showing Bush pulling ahead? It seems most Americans aren't buy all this left wing propaganda - no surpise given the consistently hysterical nature of these postings! I really wonder what these left wing fanatics are going to do when Kerry loses? Jarg

Facial-recognition software has been tested on UAV's. See: http://aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_aerospacedaily_story.jsp?id=news/bat04134.xml How useful would this feature be in places like Iraq and Afganistan?

http://www.abc.net.au/ra/newstories/RANewsStories_1084419.htm The Indonesian air force will buy eight more Sukhoi jet fighters from Russia to add to its existing four. And in response Australia is retiring her F-111s without replacement? Comeon Aussies, join the USA, you've bled enough for...

Please see http://mdorfman.home.netcom.com/gca-1.jpg, http://mdorfman.home.netcom.com/gca-2.jpg, and http://mdorfman.home.netcom.com/gca-3.jpg. These pictures were taken at Melbourne (Tullamarine) airport, Australia, on March 17. They are the best I could do from an airplane window at...

http://www.luft46.com/dsart/ds262-1.jpg The dedicated recon Me-262. Although some sources state that they were all unarmed at least one was test fitted with a central MK-108 firing through the nose. Rob

On twin engined warbirds (bombers) is the conventional landing approach usually "power on" or "power off"? Al

The Sad tale of Private Eddie Slovik: Military Justice Denied. No doubt influenced by "guardhouse lawyers" (other military prison inmates), Slovik had apparently believed that he would not be executed but rather imprisoned until some time after the war ended--when he would be able to return to...

That's about six months income for one year for the average worker, not a very large amount in the real world. That's the good thing about having an extremely strong economy - we can have a moderate debt load and not worry too much. I think the administration will allow the US national debt...

Jack Nichols wrote: I endorse Senator John Kerry for President and Senator John Edwards for Vice President, and that is not a premature selection. It is what Republicans fear. So did you post this in honor of Kerry's birthday? (He turned 60 on Thursday) Not to...

Very easy, she arrived at the airport , checked in using her ticket and photo id and was given a boarding pass Unlikely. So far I have not seen a single american without at least 10 different credit cards. As usual, a sweeping generalization that bears no resemblance to facts. Michael,...

In the book "Mig-Pilot" The ghost author writes that Mig's were Scrambled to intercept Sr-71's that flew just outside of Soviet Airspace in the mid 1970's. The Blackbird's allegedly would "scoop up to altitudes that the Mig-25's couldn't reach or dash off at speeds the Mig-25's couldn't match"...

http://ipmslondon.tripod.com/referencearticles/id28.html Rob

hi i'm brojack and i'm a racist. i thought i should come out of the closet for all of those who love me so much.

http://www.neam.org/images/loon_lg.jpg Rob

I have been watching the DVD of Dark Blue World the film about Czech fighter pilots in WW2. In the first scenes of the movie the pilots are training in Czechoslovakia before the German invasion. Several of the aircraft are clearly Bucker Jungmann types but there is another that is different. The...

The U.S. Navy on Monday said it had ordered 210 F/A-18E/F Super Hornet attack jets worth $8.5 billion from BOEING CO. and would pay Boeing $979 million to develop and demonstrate a new variant, the EA-18G, with upgraded weapons. The Navy had previously ordered 222 Super Hornets under a 5-year deal...

Just saw this on Ebay :-) http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2450501898&category=26432 Hmm. Wonder if I can stick an arrester hook on a 152... :-)

To understand the Constitutional issues involved in holding prisoners in Cuba go to Google and download the Supreme Court case " Ex Parte Milligan 1866". That will make everything clear. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website...