U.S. Air Force Moves Ahead With Studies On Air-Breathing Engines (EXCERPT) By: Jeremy Singer Space News Staff Writer While plans for a military space plane remain somewhere off in the future, the U.S. Air Force is moving ahead with work on the air-breathing rocket engines that could power such a...

Air Force Print News for Oct. 27, 2003 Watching the line (Stand-alone photo) http://www.af.mil/stories/story.asp?storyID=123005887 Falconer major player in Red Flag http://www.af.mil/stories/story.asp?storyID=123005889

Air and Space Museum Invites Aviation Vets to Opening (EXCERPT) By Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Oct. 28, 2003 * The National Air and Space Museum will highlight the contributions of military aviation during opening ceremonies of the new Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center Dec....

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...

Plonk! all the best -- Dan Ford email: see the Warbird's Forum at www.warbirdforum.com and the Piper Cub Forum at www.pipercubforum.com

Lawmakers Want NASA to Postpone New Space Plane (EXCERPT) By Kathy Sawyer Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, October 28, 2003; Page A05 Citing policy and budget concerns, key members of Congress have called on NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe to postpone further work on the next U.S. space...

10/28/2003 - EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- A B-1B Lancer here flies overhead during the Edwards Air Force Base Open House and Air Show. The B-1B unofficially set and broke almost 50 new world speed records during the air show Oct. 25 and 26. Record-breaking courses included three, 15, 25, 100,...

Has this aircraft actually been commissioned yet? where can i see designs of this aircraft and what difference is there from normal fighter aircraft?

Do we have any ? -- Al Dykes -----------

Well, at least one of the beautiful white birds might be coming home to Manchester: http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/news/stories/Detail_LinkStory=71207.html I envy those of you who live there. There is speculation that one Concorde might make it to the US, but not any time soon :( DV-D

A friend recently assured me that the mystery stealth aircraft that crashed at Boscome Down was a TR-3B ASTRA (Advanced Stealth Technology Recon Aircraft) which was positively identified as aircraft AV-6, serial number 94-2414, call sign "Blackbuc 11". He also said that Lockheed isn't the most...

Another bizarre aircraft: http://tanks45.tripod.com/Jets45/Histories/Trent/Trent.htm Rob

http://www.meteorlab.com/METEORLAB2001dev/offering21o.htm http://webs.wichita.edu/lapo/meteor/moometeo.htm http://epsc.wustl.edu/admin/resources/meteorites/moon_meteorites_list.html http://www.mars.li/labels.html http://209.238.151.128/nwa482sale.htm http://www.alaska.net/~meteor/achon.htm ....

Hobo wrote: At http://www.vectorsite.net/avtomcat.html I found this: "However, the Phoenix, nicknamed the "Buffalo" because of its size, is so heavy that a Tomcat can't carry six of them if the aircraft is to land on a carrier. No such restriction exists if the Tomcat...

Boeing shares rose as high as $38.90, up $2.86, in morning trade http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/031029/transport_boeing_earns_7.html In a statement, Boeing touted military sales as an offset to slumping commercial jet deliveries, which are projected at 280 this year, down from 381 in 2002 and 527 in...

Air Force Print News for Oct. 28, 2003 Airmen help fight California wildfires http://www.af.mil/stories/story.asp?storyID=123005897 Airmen help Iraqi return home http://www.af.mil/stories/story.asp?storyID=123005894

Subject: Coalition casualties for september From: Malev Date: 10/1/03 4:45 AM Pacific Daylight Time Message-id: On 1 Oct 2003 01:33:20 -0700, (Michael Petukhov) wrote:

A common rule of thumb is that the attacking force must have a 3x or greater combination of quantity and quality to succeed in its attack. Does this rule apply to air combat? I believe I could argue it no longer applies to ground combat either. Technology makes a good force multiplier, up to...

In spite of the mounting HATE against Bush and the American way of life? http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/10/18/bush.protest.ap/in dex.html Democracy is the worst enemy of USA global...

List of Soviet Submarines Losses during the Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945. (WWII) (Soviet date) Name: Fleet/flotilla: Where lost 1. 23/6/1941 M-78 Baltic Fleet Ventspils area (sunk by U-144) 2. 23/6/1941 S-1 Baltic Fleet Liepaja (scuttled at Libau) 3. 23/6/1941 Ronis Baltic Fleet Liepaja...