Hi, the following info was forwarded by a reader of "Aviation News" (Sept. 2003), which has an article about the ASCC code name system (sometimes not quite correctly known as "NATO code names"). He said the article mentioned the following recently assigned (or not so recently, but not widely known...

I have just recieved the one of the latest books in Osprey's Aircraft of the Aces series, number 59 Israeli Mirage/Nesher Aces. I have only just begun reading it but in the captions and list of aces its states pretty clearly that the number two ace of the Israel Air Force is Avraham Shalmon with...

Patrick AFB Area Log - Sunday, 14 March 2004 Comms were heard from various acrobatic acft at the Tico Airshow; the air-air cueing was heard on 127.775. Also snagged comms from several of the airshow acft returning home after the show. Snoopy Blimp pilot has long chat with Patrick Tower. NAVY EW...

The Pentagon is protected by a computerized system. When a plane enters the pentagon protected space the computer automatically sends a message to the plane demanding the pilot punch in a code allowing it to enter the space. If that is not done within seconds, the plane is automatically shot...

There will be a B3 manned heavy bomber. The mission is not going away. The big question is will the United States be able to build a bomber that is a big enough improvement on the B2 to justify the development before we run out of heavy bombers? I think the answer is yes.

Air Force Print News for March 10, 2004 Airmen return from deep freeze http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123007180 Roche requests Army nomination be withdrawn http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123007173

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Lockheed Martin Corp.'s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is projected to cost $5.1 billion, or 17%, more than budgeted, forcing a one-year delay and a cut in the number of planes produced, according to Pentagon documents. And only two years into the program.

Colin Powell was once outraged by elites who “wrangle slots in Reserve and Guard units.� Now he defends George Bush, who wrangled himself into a Guard unit. By John Greeley In his autobiography, Colin Powel is truly revealed as a man of honor. Certainly his military career provides us an...

(Kevin Brooks) wrote in message ... "TJ" wrote in message ... The following links show the first flight of the FC-1 yesterday. The first ...

After having been excoriated for saying that civil designs such as those envisioned for the MC2A and ACS have no business over the battlefield, this article gives me a bit of gratification: USAF Plans Serious Look At Replacing Special Ops Aircraft By Marc Selinger February 6, 2004 The U.S. Air...

ANTHRAX IN A CAN When a lone terrorist can decimate a city with a Coke can full of anthrax it’s time to rethink our policies. Over six million 40x8x8 foot containers enter our ports annually and less than six percent are inspected. It only takes one container to conceal weapons that could wipe...

BTW trying to having a debate with Walt M140 is about as entertaining as talking to a concrete wall :-) Are you -ever- going to apologize for saying that Martin Caidin fabricated the story of the B-17 that survived a head on collision with an FW-190? Should I post the serial number of that...

In article , Abe wrote: In article , *@*.* says... Unconfirmed news reports say last evening USAF a C-141 "Hercules" (sic) made a safe landing at Christchurch (NZ) after...

The U.S. Air Force has not changed its plan to purchase 1,763 LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP. F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets, a U.S. Department of Defense official said. "Right now the Air Force has not changed their numbers," said Steven Enewald, director of the F-35 program for the Department of Defense at...

I'm currently in Bavaria and since I've seen (and heard.... the sonic booms?) a couple of jets fly around (presumably USAF?), I was wondering if there was any military airfield nearby with some detachment that I could plane spot at. There's a list of bases...

In rec.food.cooking Mycroft wrote: Shocking! A politician lying............hang on a minute they do that for a living but are not supposed to get caught! It all stems from the fact that when honest politicians tell the truth, they get voted out of office. The truth...

http://www.qctimes.com/internal.php?story_id=1021971&t=Local+News&c=2,1021971 Last Updated: 11:31 pm, Friday, December 19th, 2003 WWII hero Robert Lapham dead at 86 By Thomas Geyer ..

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Hello everybody I’ve spent some free time with reading threads in this forum related to Vietnam war. It was very nice reading and while I’ve got few books about Vietnam war (Michel’s Clashes one of the best) I’ve learned a lot unknown facts – at least to me. Some of...