Air Force Print News for Feb. 11, 2004 Cast away! (Stand-alone photo) http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123006956 Jumper: Strategic airlift capability 'front burner issue' http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123006961

Air Force Print News for Feb. 12, 2004 Hiding out (Stand-alone photo) http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123006970 Patriot Express missions diverted to support redeployments http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123006968

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Another newsgroup has got on to the subject of foul language in war films, usually Army. I mentioned that the radio language during the Battle of Britain was so bad that High Command wanted to remove WAAFS from all rooms where the radio transmissions could be heard. This is not depicted in films...

http://www.f-16.net/reference/versions/f16_79.html I've read that the F-104's speed is really limited by the compressor inlet temperature on the J79, and that the airframe itself supports much higher speeds. Since the J79 fits (modified) in a F-16, what then if we were to fit a GE-F110 type engine...

I logged more P-3s today than I have ever before. I began hearing them before 8 am EST this morning, and I am still hearing them now. At one point there were about four or five of them in the pattern at Patrick AFB AT THE SAME TIME, while a Cherry Point MCAS C-130T and Charleston C-17 was there...

The Lie Factory By Robert Dreyfuss and Jason Vest Kwiatkowski, 43, a now-retired Air Force officer who served in the Pentagon's Near East and South Asia (NESA) unit in the year before the invasion of Iraq, observed how the Pentagon's Iraq war-planning unit manufactured scare stories about Iraq's...

Subj: De Borchgrave: WMD, Gulf of Tonkin, and Neocons Date: 2/11/04 8:03:58 PM Pacific Standard Time From: To: Sent from the Internet (Details) Friends,

Lots of air traffic around here all the time (Hornets, 53Es, Cobras) and I was thinking about getting a scanner to listen in to the traffic up on the base (Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, if you don't recognize the line in my sig). Any recommendations on a scanner that will hit military...

Jane defends Kerry: http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/election/0204nation/12kerry.html Inflamitory attack on Hanoi Jane: http://www.snopes.com/military/fonda.htm And nailin' interns?

I discovered an interesting website by a person that took part in the installation of Jupiter missiles in Turkey in 1961. He has some great color photos of the event. The Jupiters have the Turkish flag and some other symbols painted ot their side. This is one of the events that led to the Cuban...

Looking for helicopter audio – MI-4 engine A Finnish team of aviation historicians and enthusiasts is putting up a display of the Soviet built MI-4 helicopter for an aviation museum display. They have a short movie, shot in the 1970s by a MI-4 pilot, which will be used. The black/white film...

Which country first practised strategic bombing? WDA end

Looking over recent photos of the P-38 "Glacier Girl", and reading all ($$$) that was involved in its restoration, I was wondering... What's stopping me from laying low during the next air show and in the early hours of the morning, climbing into the cockpit of my favorite warbird, and flying it...

An interesting petition online at http://www.petitiononline.com/ltr2krry/petition.html is garnering signatures from a lot of combat vets. Take a moment to read some of the comments and then sign if you choose. Ed Rasimus Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)

It is sad to report that famous Polish/Canadian CF-105 Arrow test pilot has died as reported on this evenings CTV News. Jan flew with the RAF during WWII emigrating to Canada after the war. He became AVRO Canada's chief test pilot. First on the CF-100 where he was credited with a first, breaking...

Does anyone know whatever happened to Kelly Flinn (B52 resignation) and Paula Coughlin (Tailhook 1991). They seem to be well below radar cover. H. Slade

I came across an interesting reference in a history of aircraft markings book to an apparently short lived, early war upper-wing national marking for WW1 RAF night bombers. The reference described it simply as a white disc used only on night bombers. This marking was different from the white...

From the web site at: http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/7885393.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------- Posted on Thu, Feb. 05, 2004 THOMAS MOORER, EX-JOINT CHIEFS CHAIR DIES Associated Press WASHINGTON - Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, a Pearl Harbor...

It was September 17th 1944. We were returning from a mission. As we flew west we could spot a sky full of C-47's pulling gliders. The sky was black with them. As we watched them fly by us, going East, the command radio came alive. Someone blurted over the Command set and in the clear, "Wow, look at...