I am an inexperienced Army aviator and was trepidatious about heading over to OIF. I have just heard the rumor that we are going after gunnery next year. I have seen the video of Nick Berg and I am ashamed that my convictions about evil had gotten clouded. My american skepticism of military...

Hi guys, We are having a little problem with some rabid konspiracy kooks in a private mailing list. One of the dead horses they are flogging is the failure of ATC and NORAD to follow 'normal' procedures in time to intercept the Sept 11 aircraft which to them means collusion. Some time back there...

Korea training provides Iwakuni, Kunsan crews chance to fly against dissimilar jets, By Franklin Fisher, Stars and Stripes (EXCERPT) Pacific edition, Tuesday, April 13, 2004 OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea — Marine and Air Force fighter pilots are meeting in mock air combat over South Korea this week...

http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/mosquito1.html -- jim morris

Kuna War Hero Reunited With Fighter Plane From Vietnam Era http://www.kbcitv.com/x5154.xml?ParentPageID=x5157&ContentID=x55013&Layout=KBCI.xsl&AdGroupID=x5154 {EXCERPT} KBCI, ID Twenty years have passed since he last flew in one -- the same type of prop-driven warbird Fisher piloted when he...

Training Jet Crashes In Maryland Authorities Say Military Plane Is Privately Owned POSTED: 2:59 p.m. EDT August 24, 2003 UPDATED: 8:37 p.m. EDT August 24, 2003 FOREST HILL, Md. -- A privately owned military jet crashed in a yard between two houses on Sunday, killing the pilot, a federal official...

Hello All, Does anybody know the supersonic L/D for the B-1A or B and the SR-71. I realize this is mach defendent, but I can not find anything at all concerning this data on the above aircraft. I am doing a comparative study on future supersonic aircraft and any help would be most...

Hello, I know about 50 L159ALCAs for sale. Would like to sell them complet 50pcs. Erik

L39 for sale!!! Anyone interested? Erik Wertheim

Labrador chopper retires http://www.trentonian.ca/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentID=71467&catname=Local+News {EXCERPT} Special celebration this weekend at Baker’s Island, CFB Trenton 2Lt. Kendrah Denny Local News - Friday, June 25, 2004 @ 10:00 After 41 years as the primary search and...

I would like to contact American Jewish Officers or Servicemen who served in the Azores between 1972 and 1997. I would like to ask one question. Please contact me provately to Inacio Steinhardt

What is the full name of the large book series entitled Lancaser ? Is it Legend of a Heavy Bomber ? IIRC, each book is larger than A4 with lots of black and white photographs and mostly grouped into sections, such as chapters on air gunners, pilot, navigator. Richard.

At the risk of boring everyone to distraction I have a couple of new points to make. I've been watching this evening the repeat Tx on Ch4 of the programme where they took an RAF crew and trained them on a simulator to repeat the Dams' raid. As part of their training they were taken to Canada and...

In another online forum, it has been claimed that on the F-18, F-14, F-4, and possibly F-8, A-7, A-6, and A-4, all the landing gear doors stay open when the gear are extended. While typically (or at least in most other military jets), some of the landing gear doors open only during...

Surely a more interesting problem :-} Pat

http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/apmethods/apstory?urlfeed=D81O0BRG0.xml "Our adversaries are continuing to develop capabilities that are trying to counter the capabilities that we have," Coppock said. He said the identity of those adversaries is classified, but "it's not hard to imagine...

Langley to decide on F/A-22 squadron (EXCERPT) By DENNIS O'BRIEN, The Virginian-Pilot © October 8, 2003 Last updated: 11:04 PM HAMPTON -- The Air Force is expected to announce soon which of three F-15C squadrons based at Langley will become the first operational unit in the nation to fly the...

From what I've read, the LANTIRN pod is made up of AN/AAQ-14 Targeting unit and AN/AAQ-13 Nav unit. Can it perform both functions at the same time?

LaPorte honors helicopter unit for four-year safety record (EXCERPT) , By Seth Robson, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Wednesday, January 14, 2004 RODRIGUEZ RANGE, South Korea — They do one of the Army’s most dangerous jobs, but in four years, Company A soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 2nd...

In a vote along party lines, the committee's subcommittee on oversight approved a draft subpoena that calls for all "internal communications" among top White House staff during the period in 2009 when Solyndra sought a $535-million loan guarantee from the government, through its financial troubles...