Well, this didn't take long.

This is hogwash. If they really wanted to know where he was, they should be looking at his logbook, which would prove where he flew and when. Why dont they even mention his logbook? v/r Gordon

SCENE: The Oval Office. GW Bush hunched over the enormous desk, glasses on, pen in hand, brow wrinkled in concentration; seemingly dealing with Affairs of State of huge importance.... ENTER CONDOLEEEZZA RICE, without knocking: :CRurgently: Meessa Presidonk! Meessa Presidonk Suh!! De Rushians!...

They are still there. Why? If Germany has no connection to disc aircraft why are their scientist still working in Nevada? Why also is the Luftwaffe in New Mexico at Holloman with the stealth fighters? Because the German disc and stealth connection to the United States has remained unbroken for...

One more point Dave.We used the throat mike with both masks, we never had a mask with a built in mike. But when possible I would hold that throat mike against my lips and talk into it to keep from being choked by the throat mike's neckband. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France,...

Badge clue to pilot (EXCERPT) Nick Papps 15mar04 AMERICAN soldiers have found the wings belonging to a pilot missing for 62 years in country Victoria. The metal badge was found by forensic experts searching north of Moe for the remains of the World War II pilot.

Recently I've been reading about the UK BVRAAM project. One question really: Originally it had four mid-fuselage wings for manoeuvrability, now it has none. This seems a little odd, since it makes sense that the more agile missile will have a greater number of control surfaces. Since then I've...

Gentlemen: Thank you very much for your kind comments about my Dad. I know he appreciates them as well. Here's the update: He had a quadruple coronary bypass with an aortic valve repair yesterday. As of this evening, he is completely back to his usual self; he was extubated yesterday (from the...

The United States is shouldering a greater debt burden today than it did during the Great Depression. This seems a no-brainer. Everyone didn't have their hands out in the 1930's, more people lived on farms, Johnson's Great Society was a socialist dream, etc. The U.S. military was very small...

The Lie Factory By Robert Dreyfuss and Jason Vest Kwiatkowski, 43, a now-retired Air Force officer who served in the Pentagon's Near East and South Asia (NESA) unit in the year before the invasion of Iraq, observed how the Pentagon's Iraq war-planning unit manufactured scare stories about Iraq's...

According to this week's AvWeek, DoD test & evaluation people listed several concerns about the F/A-22. The test fleet is getting more and more different from the production baseline, firecontrol problems and some hardware and software reliability problems. No mention of flutter. The same article...

Subject: Thought for Today A car company can move its factories to Mexico and claim it's a free market. A toy company can out-source to a Chinese subcontractor and claim it's a free market. A major bank can incorporate in Bermuda to avoid taxes and claim it's a free market.

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 17:37:05 +0000 (UTC), Steven James Forsberg wrote: It is an interesting question. While I don't think there is a "conspiracy" by the administration to prevent such media coverage, the US media does indeed self-censor itself to a large extent. The...

For those of you who have e-mailed me about the HG IV aircraft found online as a model: I'm sorry to say that I never heard of it. The Me-262 Heimatschutzer IV yes, HG IV- no! I've searched all the secret project stuff and paper projects but I can't find anything. The model looks interesting but...

Air Force getting Fit to Fight (EXCERPT) , By Fred Zimmerman, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Saturday, January 10, 2004 KADENA AIR BASE, Okinawa — Kadena’s 18th Wing airmen — and the wing’s commander — sweated through push-ups, crunches and a 1.5-mile run Thursday as they completed their...

From: Hobo Of course the biggest difference between Iraq and Chechnya is that the US only cares about Iraqi oil, the Petukhovs went in to restore human rights. Casualty numbers aside, they are fighting the same ilk of...

U.S. pilot's gesture brings Brazilian fine (EXCERPT) SAO PAULO, Brazil (Agence France-Presse) — American Airlines apologized to Brazil yesterday for one of its pilots who was detained at Sao Paulo airport, fined $12,700 dollars and released after for making an obscene gesture when he was required...

http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2004/01/15/043.html Air Force Upbeat, Despite Crashes By Lyuba Pronina Staff Writer Despite a series of accidents that culminated in the first crash of a Tu-160 strategic bomber, the air force had a good 2003, and after a long break received a batch of...

Has anyone noticed the Union Flags on the RAF's C-17's? Is it me, or are those on the starboard forward fuselage upside-down?! May be they're in distress? Jim D

Finally back in a Liberal Democracy after an interesting trip through the Middle East and Sudan with a few odd scraps of metal as souvenirs - well, it was either that or a stuffed camel... Are these what I think they are and if so are they really made of titanium (in which case I get the last...