anybody recognize this page from a Mil tech manual? Somebody froma really way-out UFO-type site claims this is a some sort of time-travel doohicker. Looks to be like a bad xerox out of a military tech manual. Maybe a toxic gas analyzer?? It sure would puncture their bubble if someone could...

I am hoping someone in this group will recognize a logo on a watch I've just received. The logo seems to be a red, combat type, military jet inside a red circle. At the top of the circle is a diamond shaped pattern with 9 diamonds inside (these are all actually squares, on their side). I have...

Hi, I've gone through countless web pages and come up with nothing on this subject, so I hope someone on r.a.m could clarify things a bit. This regards the bombing tactics used by Mosquito FB.xx variants in World War II. Since the FBs could only use the rear bomb bay (due to the 20mm cannon) and...

I have the following books up for auction on eBay - all of them are full of great photos and drawings. If you win multiple auctions, I will combine shipping costs. Thanks for looking! Ending March 9 (***today***) - Aero Detail 5 - Messerschmitt...

1/48 P-38 Lightning Jandina IV - Limited Edition - Armour 98170 Mint in the box (the photographed one is mine. The one up for auction has not been removed from box). Specs: Length 9.5" Wingspan 13" Weight 2.2 pounds (A big and beautiful plane for your collection) This P-38 Lightning is a 1/48...

Air Force Print News for Jan. 23, 2004 AF creates personnel system team http://www.af.mil/stories/story.asp?storyID=123006439 Forces prepare for Yama Sakura http://www.af.mil/stories/story.asp?storyID=123006431

Ever the clever wordsmith, the current inhabitant of the White House has blessed us with the phrase "Weapons of Mass Destruction Related Program Activities" as a casus belli. ( BTW, was he related to Melvin Belli? ) I thought this phrase would fit well in some old quotes: Remember the Weapons of...

Remembering an Instructor I remember my bombing instructor at Big Springs. He was a burly fellow with a booming voice and a gruff, in your face manner. He had flown a tour with the Bloody 100th Bomb Group over Berlin and. lived to tell the tale, Now I had inherited him. He always yelled,...

Indiana National Guard pilot killed in midair collision http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/fortwayne/news/local/8689806.htm {EXCERPT} Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, IN - 1 - Two F-16 fighter jets collided Monday during training, killing one of the pilots, the Indiana Air National Guard said. The other...

Sam Welden gave the Grandview group a military-style acronym, "Operation BRAT, (EXCERPT) Soldier meets his Boca 'Angel Team', by Lona O'Connor, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Thursday, March 18, 2004 BOCA RATON -- Army Staff Sgt. Sam Welden, just back from Iraq, got a family homecoming celebration...

1986 "Fighting Jets" Hardcover Edition Book I have for sale the 1986 Hardcover Edition Book "Fighting Jets" by Bryce Walker. The hardcover edition contains 176 pages of text as well as full-color, and vintage black & white photographs profiling Fighting Jets of the world. Included are chapters on:...

Back in the mid 70's, I made a trip to the Air Force Museum. My entourage included my two young children, and my maternal grandfather. It is important to point out that my grandfather was Naval Aviator #711, a number which will sound spectacularly low to the Naval Aviators who read these...

There have been a lot of unkind things said about Russian hardware on this board...but... There are the following facts. 1. In most cases, it's been U.S. frontline (and face it, Israeli AF is equivelant to the U.S. frontline air force) against export models. 2. We've been fighting services with...

Aircraft performance flight models I'm developing flight models for an upcoming combat flight simulator for next year, to say the leaste it will knock the world back a bit as nothing like this has really been done before. ANY information along the lines of real world flight envelopes for modern...

"= Vox Populi ©" wrote: Sure numbnuts, try it in actual flight and see: "Sudden decompression" and "explosive decompression" are two totally different things. George Patterson Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is "Hummmmm... That's interesting...."

National Pest article at http://tinyurl.com/onwo. How realistic is this plan, anyway? Are there any C-130 airframes out there to be had? Or, like John Cleese in the Cheese Shop sketch, is this an act of the purest optimism on the part of the procurement folks to pose the question in the first...

Rare 1942 photo of Me-109 atop a DFS 230 further down the page: http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/aircraft/WWII/DFS230-glider/info/info.htm Rob

Misawa air show set for Sunday (EXCERPT) , By Juliana Gittler, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Saturday, September 6, 2003 MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan — About 100,000 people from northern Japan are expected Sunday for the Misawa Air Festival, a Japanese Air Self-Defense Force air show augmented by...

Friendly Fire Notebook An effort has begun to collect and preserve the details of every friendly fire incident that took or changed the lives of American soldiers. Since the Revolutionary War thousands upon thousands of military personnel have been injured or killed due to mistaken or...

Little Friend takes Big Brother Home We were flying a maximum effort (56 Marauders) heading East into Germany We were in the number two slot in the high flight flying deputy lead. Way in the distance I saw a tiny spot coming toward us. As it came closer I saw it was a single B-17. When it came...