Air Force Print News for Feb. 13, 2004 Secretary reveals future systems at AFA symposium http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123006983 CSAF seeks improvements in warfighting http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123006987

some foreign visitors at CHR, since the last 6 months: C130 from Chile, UAE, Egypt, Algeria IL-76 (civil) like UK76426 go to Afghanistan for french army and sometimes, we have surprise like this visitor : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/cool.pix/211103.htm

Can anyone tell me how similar these engines were to the Merlin? I know they were a derivative but being intended for ground use may be so totally different as to be useless for any aviation application. Why do I ask? An acquaintance has just acquired a complete Meteor engine and is looking to...

Saw the Tuskeegee Airmen movie earlier this week where intermission had discussions with a couple fellows who were members of the real thing. Quite interesting. However, they mentioned the oft repeated accolade that they never lost a bomber to enemy fighters that they escorted. One reason,...

Michael Petukhov wrote: Let the dollar drop cut/ Being a long-time subscriber of The Economist, I appreciated your quotation from it, but... what has it to do with Military Aircrafts or Military Ships ? Regards,

It is 11:24am EST (1624z) and range clearance activities have begun in preparation for today's Titan 4 launch. Weather One arrived from Orlando, entered the Restricted Zone at the Cape a short while ago and has been transmitting cloud conditions to Range Weather on the ground. JOLLY 1, an HH-60G,...

Go to Original www.truthout.org www.rememberjohn.com Bush's Missing Year By Eric Boehlert Salon.com Thursday 05 February 2004 In 1972, George W. Bush dropped out of his National Guard service and later lied about it. With the media finally paying attention, will he

COMUNICATO STAMPA TRAGEDIA AEREA SU MONTE LUPONE (CORI-LATINA) DELL'8-8-1997 AL TRIBUNALE DI ROMA AL VIA IL PROCESSO AI RESPONSABILI DEL SOCCORSO AEREO DELL'AERONAUTICA MILITARE

Why have most newer fighter designs not used swing wings? It seems in the US, the F14 and F111 were the last to go with swing wings. It seems the major reasons for using them is having the best of both worlds in wing loading at both low and high speeds. Why have the newer designs avoided them?...

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...

I have posted an evaluation of the armament of the principal Battle of Britain fighters at: http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk/BoB.htm Tony Williams Military gun and ammunition website: http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk Discussion forum at: http://forums.delphiforums.com/autogun/messages/

On cable tv last night, I caught sight of video on a "Real TV"-type or possibly an entertainment tonight type show - the video showed an airport cam's view of a craft that certainly got a lot of attention. It was supposedly shot at Nellis in Nevada and, I'm not making this up, it looked like a man...

With retention high, Air Force cuts re-enlistment period from 12 to 3 months (EXCERPT) , By Lisa Burgess, Stars and Stripes European edition, Friday, February 13, 2004 ARLINGTON, Va. — Beginning March 5, active-duty airmen will have only a three-month window during which they’ll be eligible to...

i read this in a book one night, an extract by Spike Milligan; "flying in itself is not inherently dangerous; crashing IS"!! just a little quip, but so true, hadnt thought of it that way!!

From: "Cowboy67" ...can only forward others thoughts and none of his/her own. Didn't a democrat, jimmy carter, pardon all the Viet Nam VETS? Carter pardoned the draft dodgers, not the vets. Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

Bush's drills with the Alabama Guard confirmed The White House yesterday released military records that it said demonstrate conclusively that President Bush completed the required drills leading to an honorable discharge from the Texas Air National Guard in 1973. at...

from http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/inring.htm Air National Guard Maj. Harry Schmidt steadfastly has remained silent ever since the Air Force began investigating him in the "friendly fire" deaths of Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan. Now, Maj. Schmidt is speaking for the first time via a...

Aircraft Survivability • Spring 2003 • http://jas.jcs.mil Although susceptibility-reduction measures such as the installation of IRCM systems on airliners would no doubt improve the survivability of those aircraft, experience has shown that vulnerability reduction should not be...

Hi everybody! I translate books about (mostly) WWII planes from Polish to English and sometimes I need some help with phrasing, or to better understand how something works, etc. An example would be about the radar unit (APS-4) used on the F4U-2 night fighter. How was the distance indicated on...

Okay, online flightsim question time. Did the Curtiss or P&W Radial engines rotate on a mount and spin the propellor like their WWI predecessors or were they fixed and drove a propellor shaft? I've seen WWI Era fighters with the engine exposed and the cylinders spin, but all the WWII aircraft the...