http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/28/opinion/28BROO.html (quoting) U.S. Air Force would lease 100 refueling tankers, modified Boeing 767's, from an entity controlled by the Boeing Corporation. This whole mess started because the Air Force can't pay for new tankers up front, so it tried to push back...

The B-26 Martin Marauder needed power poured on to execute the flareout. If that was not done, the aicraft would not pull up and just plow into the ground. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website...

Does anybody know what it was (I'm asking strictly about planes that saw combat, not the "blueprint superfighters")?

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I'll repeat this every so often, probly once a week for a while. 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...

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?...

the "Hopeless Diamond" version: http://www.f-117a.com/images/XST/hdiamond1.gif Looks much different from the designs the Germans came up with for their MBB Lampyridae (Firefly)... independently, of course. The German design was much better at radar defraction and was from the onset designed as an...

you may recall before the age of sat links, uplink, downlink repeaters etc. If you care to respond I would be interested in wx conditions and location at the time. Thanks Rico

Strafing as if in a Dream It was a rare mission for us. Marauders were never meant to be thrown around at low level at high speed. And this was a low-level mission. We were to bomb a military target in a small city. Then we were to go down on the deck and strafe. It was the first strafing mission...

Do you think that above is somehow due to that is discussed below? Michael from "Notes from a Big Country" by Bill Bryson There are idiots in every country, Michael, obviously. In my son's elementary class, there are 22 kids; fifteen of them were tested for the GATE program and

I'm curious why barrage balloon techniques aren't being utilized to protect against terror attacks from the air. A well-engineered network of modern balloons should improve the likelihood of diverting all but the largest commercial aircraft from U.S. point targets vice an Avenger salvo, and...

Which ones. And why? Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

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Why has the AF chosen to jump fighter designations from 22 to 35? Thanks

I see we have that old problem again about if "it" should have been used or not.. Well I did some research. I checked over the wanted adds in papers from Ca to Wa for Oct and Nov 1941. I did not see any adds from America asking another country to attack us. Ok we got that out of the way, We did...

It has not yet met all the requirements And costs are soaring So, those tiny stupid guys betting just on that technologies are not even sure to just buy one of them...

I have read that the usefulness of the Bell P-39 was greatly decreased by certain decisions made by the USAAF before it went into production in the 1930s. Chief among these was the deletion of the turbosupercharger, but the shortening of the wings also had an effect. The question is, just how much...

Has there ever been any research into the top scoring individual aircraft (not type) of any era? Presume it would be WWII. AL

Does anyone have any links or info on the Lockheed effort back in the 70s for competition with the YF-16 and YF-17? It was a derivative of the F-104 but I don't know what happened to the program or even if a mock up was built.

Russian *White* helicopters, the analog to our ubiquitous, yet never confirmed "black helicopters"? A couple days ago the news mentioned Russians rescuing some Russian (??) scientists at an Antarctic station. I think the ice had broken loose from the continent. Some video of the rescue showed...