The US Air Force has a somewhat little known but a fantastic gem of a museum just outside of the main gates to Elgin Air Force Base just east of Pensacola, Florida. Anyone know how this museum survived the hurricane? Given all the damage at NAS Pensacola, one might fear the worst since many of...

Soon a retired USAF (ex RAAF) (Q)F-4G Phantom will be heading to Australia to a collection of a friend of mine. Serial is 69-7207. This hunter also scored the last HARM/Sam kill by a F-4G in 1993. Any former weasels who flew this aircraft could they email me with info if can on their time with...

You are a reckless liar promoting murder. "Aerophotos" wrote in message ... -- News reports that Australian troops are relieved and happy that they can now prepare to kill/murder and maim iraqi people.. god ...how fun that must be we...

Sun 30 May 2004 UK to sell £43m fighters before seeing service BRIAN BRADY WESTMINSTER EDITOR IT WAS the "fourth generation" aircraft designed to protect the skies above

Around 1500 people attended this years ceremony held at the Cambridge American Military Cemetery on Monday and more than 118 associations laid wreaths at the beautiful plot on Madingley Road which was gifted to the US by the grateful people and Colleges of Cambridge. Approx 4000 US servicemen of...

Does the C-130 have two 1553 buses onboard? One for flight control and one for EW/mission systems? Thanks in advance, Dave

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Antonov cockpit: http://www.airliners.net/open.file/391247/L/ Galaxy cockpit: http://www.airliners.net/open.file/498959/L/ Aside from a truck parked on Galaxys hood, what is the major design philosophy difference between American and Russian cockpit layout? Russian

Are there any Hollywood movies where p38s are shown flying?

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Hi All Heres something from Reuters... "U.S. arms giant Lockheed Martin Corp , which made the F-16s, was accused by Norwegian politicians of failing to hand out enough sub-contracts to Norwegian firms under a plan to develop a new generation fighter.

It seems to me that the Germans and Japanese had a lot more cannon in their planes than the Americans who seemed to rely almost totally on .50 machine guns. Why was that? What was the rate of fire or the 20mm cannons and what type of projectiles did they fire?

It looks to me like the B-17 had more forward guns than people to fire them. According to my count there were two men in the forward compartment (bombadier and navigator). Looking at pictures of the B-17F Memphis Belle I see four guns, each in a separate loophole in the nose of the plane. Looking...

told me that his uncle flew or was on a crew that flew the B17's into Oahu three hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He then went on to tell me that his uncle went on to fly B29's in the Pacific, his particular bomber was call the Cock Wagon. The nose art depicted a rooster pulling a wagon. ...

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Leading the day to day operations of terrorist/suicide bombing group Hamas is getting to be a pretty scary job. Ironic, huh? Dave GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (April 17) - Israel assassinated Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi in a missile strike on his car Saturday, part of its declared campaign to wipe...

The problems which have been experienced by the V-22 Osprey are a reminder of one very successful alternative: the Fairey Rotodyne. See: http://www.groenbros.com/tech/FaireyRotodyne.htm This was a large, passenger gyrodyne which had a separate lift rotor and two turboprops mounted on a short wing....

Quoting without comment, I guess they'll come later Cheers Dave Kearton

44,000 ft altitude means only about 1/7 of the atmospheric pressure at sea level. So it's hard to believe a person could maintain consciousness without oxygen pressure equipment to get to 49,500 feet. With half the atmosphere below 18,000 feet the U. S. military requires oxygen masks above 15,000...

I am glad someone is doing some research in this area as early operations have long been ignored. I think the contribution of P-39's in holding the line early in the war has long been ignored. I am not sure what you want with your question. Obviously the reports are taken from different points of...