Why do we have over 700 dead Americans in Iraq? Who stands to benefit? The houses of Bush and Saud. Walt

Just got a new magazine today, and there a fine article about the F-104 in Viet Nam. I do have a question: If they needed to carry both drop tanks and Sidewinders, did they prefer the Sidewinders be on the wingtip rails? If so, then were the tanks carried under-wing? The only photo they...

I saw some of the discussions on this group involving the effects of the boundary layer on the power produced by military jet engines. I thought participants here might have some input on the idea I present below. My idea is to use boundary layer air to provide oxidizer to the engines at hypersonic...

To Jerry who e-mailed with the question, "what Luftwaffe aircraft carried a flammenwerfer?" Answer: Both the He-111 and Ju-88. The book "Luftwaffe in Focus #2 has a photo of a crashed He-111 with the flamethrower and this site below has two photos at the...

Anybody have any information on the RAF's ECDU, Electronic Countermeasures Development (Demonstration) Unit? It appears as part of Bomber Command 92 group from late 1942 or early 1943 to mid/late 1944, flying Wellingtons and eventually some Lancasters as well. Based at RAF Oakley. What I am...

Hello to all. I know that a lot of us have run into various aircraft over the years and I think its likely that some of you have photographs of DH-98 Mosquitos from some time in your past. I am in the process of gathering Mossie photos for YAMB (Yet Another Mosquito Book) and have collected some...

Col. Robert Morgan, commander of the B-17 Memphis Bell, died late Saturday. He was 85. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040516/D82JF0500.html

Can anyone give me a web address for info on the coming airshow at Moffett Field? I don't know what to expect - went to a show there in late summer a couple of years ago and was disappointed, comparing it to some others I've seen in the past.

over on the sinodefence webpage, there seems to be a update of J-10 images this time of the fighter in PLAAF colors http://www.sinodefence.com/airforce/fighter/j10.asp Does this indicate that the J-10 is in Low-Rate-Production and is it true that the president of North Korea just got rejected...

I was awaiting departure from BWI and glanced up from my place on the floor in the SWA queue. What first caught my attention was it was high wing. What REALLY grabbed me away from my book was the 1,2,3,4,5 FIVE bogies on the main gear. It turned and parked, and we taxied by it 30 minues later. It...

I am interested human powered flight, and I have a design for flexible spiral wings shaped like a cornucopia or the coils in an old telephone cord (See "Spring Wings" at http://patricktimony.tvheaven.com/catalog.html ). If anyone in the Washington DC area would be interested in collaborating...

Hello everybody! The reason of my message is to invite you all to come on my website in order to see my art-work...It's free so I hope lot of you will come and discover it! I wish some of you will give me new ideas or some advices in order to progress... The only problem is that my website is in...

Hi Art I know you flew or were in B26's; did you fly with or know/meet any of the Tokyo raiders,such as Ski York, Col' Frank Keppeler? Later in the war they were transferred to England and the ETO and flew B26's out of England,France and Belgium,just wondered whether you knew any of them. Mark.

"Posterity: You will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." John Quincy Adams Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

If anyone has any 90th Bomb Group info they'd like to share please contact me. As 90th Space Wing historian I am trying to reconnect our unit with its predecessor the 90th Bomb Group, also known as "The Jolly Rogers". I'm compiling a file of stories, documents and other items of historical...

Zond-2: http://www.sistemasdearmas.hpg.ig.com.br/notzond2.jpg Zond-3: http://www.sistemasdearmas.hpg.ig.com.br/notzond3.jpg Rob

http://www.soldat-und-technik.de/11-2003/ruestung.htm Rob

Hi, Does anyone out there have a contact address or phone number for the 92 Squadron RAF Association? TIA Duncan

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I warned ya a coupla weeks ago, you didn't pay attention so here ya go! Hope you have a sense of humor, I have lots of these, when you tell them to your co-workers in the head, (you must know what a "head' is, you seem to know everything else about Navy terminology, including calling ships...