Just saw this on Ebay :-) http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2450501898&category=26432 Hmm. Wonder if I can stick an arrester hook on a 152... :-)

If anyone's interested the Nimrod MRA4 had it's maiden flight today. Si

Get Bush out and all will be well and we will be a wonderful country again. Then we can pass an amendment that prevents Repubs from ever holding office again. Any office.

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That helicopter egress was a pathetic joke. Pathetic! I'd be amazed if any hostages survive. G

Of course, Hamas were the same people dancing in the streets of the Gaza Strip on 9-11. I think they spilled their true intent, vis-a-vis the US, with the threats they made after the hit on Yassin. GW Bush should not allow them to walk away from their threats now. Hamas is an enemy. Dave GAZA...

I just read that the Shenadoah towed a target for the USS Texas anti-aircraft guns with success. The target was 50' long 10' in diameter and was peppered by the Texas at 3000 feet. An interesting use for the lighter-than air ship. AL

Hi Dave, I finally located my copy of THE NAVIGATORS' INFORMATION FILE (1943) to look up the oxygen mask designations. The demand mask was listed as the latest in 1944 was called the A-10.It is the one we used in combat. The "spit bag" mask we used in training was continious flow and had to be set...

I have been watching the DVD of Dark Blue World the film about Czech fighter pilots in WW2. In the first scenes of the movie the pilots are training in Czechoslovakia before the German invasion. Several of the aircraft are clearly Bucker Jungmann types but there is another that is different. The...

The U.S. Navy on Monday said it had ordered 210 F/A-18E/F Super Hornet attack jets worth $8.5 billion from BOEING CO. and would pay Boeing $979 million to develop and demonstrate a new variant, the EA-18G, with upgraded weapons. The Navy had previously ordered 222 Super Hornets under a 5-year deal...

Jack Nichols wrote: I endorse Senator John Kerry for President and Senator John Edwards for Vice President, and that is not a premature selection. It is what Republicans fear. So did you post this in honor of Kerry's birthday? (He turned 60 on Thursday) Not to...

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For a reinactment, lets let Enola Gay drop one more...maybe in the Northwest Area of Pakistan...(we could use one of Pakistan's nukes and justify it as a nuclear test)....maybe we will get lucky. Osama wants nuclear war anyways so lets give him a taste. Think of the backdrop of a nuke with all...

Recently, there were 5 women on Oprah who claim they were rape victims while at the AF academy. I was wondering if this ever happened at USAF OTS in Alabama? I had never heard anything about that while I was there. Then again, someone else tells me that saltpeter was added to the food to make...

To understand the Constitutional issues involved in holding prisoners in Cuba go to Google and download the Supreme Court case " Ex Parte Milligan 1866". That will make everything clear. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website...

http://www.japan-press.co.jp/2331/self.html The Japanese Self-Defense Forces have started their first aerial refueling exercise with U.S. forces in preparation for the introduction of their own refueling aircraft in 2006. .... Defense Agency Director General Ishiba Shigeru said the SDF's possession...

Here's a question-- I've read some theories that the marines will eventually need a new gunship to escort V-22's. Many of these involve a AV-22 style design. But my question is this-- as I understand it, the V-22 is very ineffecient and unmanuverable in VTO mode-- it's not a helicopter that flies...

Can anyone provide any information on a Finnish JU-88 which was supposedly recovered from an unkown lake some 100 km south of Leningrad (these days St Petersburg)in Russia in the 90's and now resides somewhere in New Zealand? The plane apparently ditched in late 1944. Any info greatly...

Finally! Canada to place an order for the replacement of the Sea King. Two companies are in contention, the original manufacturer of the EH-101 that was cancelled a number of years ago and an American company. According to news reports the cheapest bidder will have the inside track. Delivery is...

Water Cooled Jet Engines: a possibility then and now? This post examines German water cooled gas turbine work in the period 1930-1945 and also looks at modern 'steam cooling' of gas turbine blades. I speculate as to the possibility of water cooled jet fighters with radiators or evaporative steam...