Has there ever been any research into the top scoring individual aircraft (not type) of any era? Presume it would be WWII. AL

I just read that the Shenadoah towed a target for the USS Texas anti-aircraft guns with success. The target was 50' long 10' in diameter and was peppered by the Texas at 3000 feet. An interesting use for the lighter-than air ship. AL

I have seen conflicting references as to whether the F2A-3 had the ventral window. Does anyone know for certain. I have yet to find an F2A-3 photo showing the belly. AL

Anyone have this book. I am looking for some information in it pertaining to Colt Machine guns being used in Russian planes early in WWI. Al

Are there any accounts of the activities of the US ground and air corps activities in this period re the defense of Java? AL

Has anyone done any speculation if the Germans could have recovered from the Kursk disaster if they had not had so many fighters placed towards the west in 1943 and 1944, or had the Russians already achieved a measure of tactical air superiority, both with their own aircraft and the aircraft...

I have heard mention of air battles over normandy--or german attempts to attack the normandy beaches- after D-day but I have never read anything on the subject. The only thing mentioned is the two sorties by Fw-190's on D-Day. Did the Germans belatedly attempt to attack the normandy beaches and...

They were the bad guys, thats a given. That is not the issue. The issue is, did we, the good guys, go down to the bad guys level. Its my understanding that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were targeted because they were undamaged cities... it had nothing to do with their military production capacity.

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

Has anybody seen any photos of the He-111A's flown by the Chinese Air Force which obtained six in 36? Al

I often see people complaining that they google and can't find stuff. Yahoo has always been a reliable search engine for military/history stuff. No one ever seems to gripe about yahoo the same way. AL

JMO: The Enola Gay and Bockscar are valuable in that they remind us of how any war becomes a vicious cycle, the upgrading of weapons as the war occurs, and the willingness of even the "good guys" to justify increased atrocities to win that war. Atrocities by good guys often occur when the...

For a reinactment, lets let Enola Gay drop one more...maybe in the Northwest Area of Pakistan...(we could use one of Pakistan's nukes and justify it as a nuclear test)....maybe we will get lucky. Osama wants nuclear war anyways so lets give him a taste. Think of the backdrop of a nuke with all...

Although I had originally heard that the Fw-200 that was exstensively damaged in the attempt to raise it and was virtually totally destroyed, it appears that the project has just been made more difficult, not impossible. Hopefully in about 10 years the example will be on permanent static...

JMO: The only issue about the Nagasaki and Hiroshima is if it is justifiable in war to one child in the hopes that more children will be saved overall and/or if a single soldier is more valuable than a single child. A basic morality question. To me, its a question of responsibility. I...

I just read where Russian Su-30 engines are intended to operate 300 hours before major overhaul. How do US engines compare? 300 hours seems awfully short to a layperson like me. Al

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...

It seems like,with available hp the WWII George and Jack should have been faster (specs on new a/c). Both are commonly referred to as being in the 360 mph class under optimum conditions. Yet they had high hp engines with four bladed props. Bad airfoils? Too much frontal cross section? ...

I have seen one model and several original photos of overall RLM "76" (pale blue) Me-109G-10's. Does anyone know their actual service purpose in this color scheme and what units flew them? Al

Does anyone have a pic of the Bettys side blisters in open position? I assume these are waist gun positions but I have never seen a pic of them open and/or with guns displayed. Al