CNN just announced that the DoD is expected to announce this afternoon that the Commanche project will be cancelled. If this pans out as reported, I guess we can expect some sort of expedited effort to pick up an off-the-shelf reconnaissance/light attack helo, or maybe a light utility helo oriented...

"Anonymous" wrote in message ... I noticed in last Wednesdays Washington Post, in the Metro section they had a picture of the New Executive Office Building and showed a permanent installation of anti-aircraft...

"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...

If you have never visited Spy Flight, recommend you give it a look. Very professionally done, lots of good info on lesser known programs, and more information than pictures (though the pics are pretty good too). The owner does it as a hobby and handles expenses out of his own pocket, so no pop-ups,...

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According to an article in the current issue (Nr. 49, 2003) of the Rheinischer Merkur, Gustav Whitehead (Gustav Weißkopf) flew his plane (photo shown on p. 22 of the newspaper) on the night of 13 August 1901 in Fairfield, Conn. It seems clear to me that the article is motivated by both the...

HIGH FLIGHT Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds (1) of Earth and danced the skies (2) on laughter-silvered wings; sunward I've climbed (3), and joined the tumbling mirth (4) of sun-split clouds (5) - and done a hundred things

A question for any Warthog jocks (or fans) out the Why is the front of the right gear fairing on all A-10s painted gloss black? Is is a radome of some sort? If so, what for? Unless, of course, you would have to kill me if you told me, etc... Just curious, Kirk

Just for fun, off the top of your heads, which post-WW2 combat aircraft (any country) have NOT been used in their intended roles in an actual shooting war (or police action, or soccer riot, or whatever it's called these days)? And why? Some ROE: 1. Combat aircraft means it was designed or...

What was the last piston-engined airplane (not aircraft - lets keep the helo's out of this one) to employ weapons in A/A or A/G combat (guns, bombs, rockets, nukes, whatever). Where and when? Just being there doesn't count. Oh, and it does have to have a pilot on board - so Predators don't count...

I need a picture of a kind of container ( looks like a fuel depot ) for pilot "personal items" that can be attached to the wing in fighters. thanks.

Sometimes the feelings is like knitting a sweater, the beginning of each stitch carefully prepared, eventually just gently pull back to the starting point in the good feelings there is no material basis outcome is the same. But when with the material as a foundation, the feelings are not in...

It's a training aircraft. should be compared with yack-130, mig-AT, BAe hawk, T-50 and so on

I am asking for anyone with clear photo's of the B-25's flaps in the full extended position, from the rear of the A/C and from under the wing, showing what is exposed in the wing when deployed, please contact me. I have gone through all on the web and through all the books and info I have including...

Well the flight capable orbiter was stored in a hanger at Baikonur Cosmodrome. That is until it was destroyed in 2002 when the roof collapsed on it. Oura Poboda! Somehow Mikey will make this event a) our fault or b) disappear.

Do you think that above is somehow due to that is discussed below? Michael from "Notes from a Big Country" by Bill Bryson There are idiots in every country, Michael, obviously. In my son's elementary class, there are 22 kids; fifteen of them were tested for the GATE program and

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,...

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...

Hey, Michael - this doesn't have jack **** to do with R.A.M.; just another one of your incessant attempts to use your red finger to point out our flaws. One of the main points that the article doesn't go out of its way to stress is that we did *not* invade the Mideast in 1973. Its called a...

Well, this didn't take long.