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wrote in message ... Not in any particular order: Oh my. This is a list of misconceptions about FAA Procedures? Let me have a look. Net Kook Maxwell Smart claimed the following when attempting to fulfill a repeated...

"Sparky AKA_Sparkticus" (SNIP) phosgene and mustard gas (what was wrong with blockading Japan, it is a couple of tiny islands) You see this is my problem the Country's that claim to be fighting on the side of GOOD stoop to use tactics that are worse then those employed by the enemy.

A little question, below the cockpit of the A10 for example, there has been painted a fake cockpit. Maybe it sounds a little stupid but I don't get the military use of that. Can anybody explain me why they do that. I've seen it a dozen times and I simply don't get it. Greetz

I was watching the IMAX movie on Flight at the Pensacola Museum the other day, featuring the Blue Angels and their F-18 Hornets. One of the on-board cameras kept showing a gear door up close that look mangled or shredded, or cut in some sort of jagged pattern on one of the Hornets. This...

Hello all, Just a quick question - do any aircraft have slats installed on the leading edge of the horizontal tailplane? Rather like slats would be used on the main wing section but - instead of providing helpful lift - they're just to counter a very large pitching moment on approach when...

My son was asking me about ejecting from jet aircraft. He's 8, and he's convinced that no matter how fast an airplane is going, it's possible to eject. I said I didn't think that the guy who was flying the MiG-25 at Mach 3+ was able to eject from his aircraft with the runaway engines (if that's...

There's a report that Osama Bin Laden may have been found. See: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,8754564%255E401,00.html The report mentions that helicopters (Military Aviation content!) based in Afganistan may be used to go after him.

The U.S. built and flew a few disc aircraft during WW2. The Chance Vought V-173 first flew 23 November 1942, which had excellent STOL capabilities and was apparently impossible to stall. The Navy ordered two XF5U-1 which didn't get their propellers until 1947 and were not proceded with since the...

Key tests for new jet set for April (EXCERPT) By DALE EISMAN, The Virginian-Pilot © March 25, 2004 WASHINGTON — The Air Force is ready to begin critical testing on its F/A-22 Raptor fighter-bomber next month, a senior official told lawmakers on Wednesday. Marvin R. Sambur, assistant secretary of...

Which depiction of the B-52 in the movies is the most realistic for the time the movie is set? There are two main contenders-Dr. Strangelove with a high altitude penetration, then low, then high again to drop the weapon; and By Dawn's Early light-which had a Buff drop a (presumed) retarded...

Civilization and Its Enemies : The Next Stage of History by Lee Harris "The Enemy is someone who is willing to die in order to kill you. And while it is true that the Enemy always hates us for a reason -- it is his reason, and not ours." Wow! Put this one on your reading list. " has said a lot...

I happened to be conversing (actually, e-conversing) with Smithsonian Institution Press yesterday, and I was told that Ed Rasimus's book, When Thunder Rolled, is being reprinted. For SIP, this is unheard of! It was published only in March. Two years is more like it, and most SIP books never go back...

In article , "Mycroft" david wrote: While I was watching the Scrap heap challenge that pitted the UK, France & the US against each other to build an aircraft (Powered flight centenary prog) the US pilot said this was his 96th aircrft type...

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch has signed a $1 million agreement with Alfred A. Knopf, giving the injured former U.S. Army private the chance to tell her own story, the publisher said on Tuesday. all the best -- Dan Ford email: www.danford.net/letters.htm#9 see the...

Gary Younge in New York Friday September 3, 2004 The Guardian The US president, George Bush, was transferred to the Alabama National Guard during the Vietnam war because his drunken behaviour was a political liability to his father in Texas, the wife of one of his father's former confidants...

L39 for sale!!! Anyone interested? Erik Wertheim

Two nations clearly culpable in 9/11 are Iran and Saudi Arabia. Iraq is an irrelevant diversion. Therefore at this time the war against terrorism has not yet begun. Will the neocons ever launch a war against terrorism? Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany

July 22, 2003 Global View Germany Makes a Choice, And It Isn't France By GEORGE MELLOAN German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, a leftist hell-raiser in his youth but today a popular politician, last week visited Washington and offered his views on what the future world order should be. French...