On BBC4 tonight at 22:00 BST: Britain's Greatest Pilot: The Extraordinary Story of Captain Winkle Brown. Overall a very interesting programme, despite the occasional incorrect picture. An amazing man, who has flown more types of aircraft and made more carrier landings than anyone else. I met him...

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Goodbye to your favorite weapon programs. The money will go to liberal social welfare programs.... Analyst: Obama Would Be A Nightmare For Defense Programs, Firms Defense Daily If Sen. Barak Obama of Illinois wins the Democratic presidential nomination and then goes on to be elected to the...

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Indonesian Oil, current planned negotiations in Helsinki, Martti Ahtisaari / Bill Clinton / GWB / THE U.S. CIA and Henry Kissinger --- the control for oil and Indonesian oil fields - Security Police (SUPO) of Finland is trying to protect these Helsinki negotiations The situation is the same as in...

As an armchair admiral, I've always wondered how A/C in WWII knew how to find the carrier after being away for a couple hours on a mission. I assume the pilots were told, roughly, where the carrier plans to be, but sh*t happens. I always assume the carrier doesn't broadcast any radio signals. How...

V-22 Defender Strikes Back on Autorotation, Sort of http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2007/10/v-22-defender-s.html V-22 Defender Strikes Back on Autorotation, Sort of Roger Williams, the executive director and site leader at Bell Helicopter Military Aircraft Assembly Center in Amarillo,...

Iran is preparing for an underground nuclear test with North Korean help before year's end - London Daily Telegraph January 24, 2007, 1:52 PM (GMT+02:00) North Korea's Yongbyon reactor The British paper, quoting a senior European source, reports that North Korea is helping Iran prepare an...

From http://www.staugustine.com (St. Augustine FL 21 Dec 2003) By SUSAN PARKER Historian With this past week's centennial celebration of the Wright Brothers' first flight, the focus on aviation pioneers has been both historical and personal for me. My uncle, Charles Eugene Richbourg, a son of...

What are the carrier landing speeds for: The F-14 Tomcat? The F-18A Hornet? The F-18E/F Super Hornet?

Depleted Uranium -- the U.S. military and tactical nuclear weapons ... http://southmovement.alphalink.com.au/antiwar/depleted.htm http://www.heureka.clara.net/gaia/du.htm http://traprockpeace.org/depleteduranium.html http://www.firethistime.org/du.htm

Hi all, I found interesting pictures at http://warfare.ru/?catid=255&linkid=2280 Are they really show Sukhoi Pak-FA fighter? Thank you. Eugene

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To pay for the envisioned force structure below? Well the seemingly inviolate 12 carrier hull money is most likely one place. With what is being proposed why would you need 12 carriers anyway? Maybe its time to begin to transform Naval Aviation away from being so completely centered around a...

If there are any former Demon Drivers or Doctors (F3H) lurking here, please know that the next reunion is scheduled for Pensacola November 5th thru the 8th. For info please go to http://www.f3hdemon.homestead.com. The last reunion, held in February of 2002, was a huge success. Wally Schirra was...

Check out this cool site: http://home.wxs.nl/~erboblex/ehvb.htm -- Regards, Spirit.

Any advice given on this subject is much appreciated!! Just an hour and a half ago we received the news that my fiance was not on the unofficial list of names of those students who had received the Pilot and NFO slots. He attends the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New...

Mary- F-4 doors stay open. So do F-15 and F-16 and B-52 doors. Ditto YF-12, SR-71, T-33, F-104, X-15, F-18, CV-990, A-7, F-8, KingAir, B-747, B-1, B-2, F-117, B-57, and U-2. Also Lear 24 and 25. And the Orbiter. These are just the ones I've seen and can remember. BRBR c'mom Mary, ya...

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap021110.html http://www.sundog.clara.co.uk/atoptics/gfim12.htm http://spaceweather.com/swpod2006/31jan06/zinkova.jpg So, anyone ever seen it from the air or a boat? -- -Jeff B. zoomie at fastmail fm

To The Nearest Tenth of a Mile, What is the Maximum Range of a AIM-54A Phoenix Air to Air Missile? Do you understand why the exact answer might be classified?