As Art so often says, we can't forget absent friends. I would like to remind the world of the loss of Mike Bumanglag, US Navy, and his pilot, LCDR Dick Carlson. I didn't know Commander Carlson well, but his family seemed to love him fiercely. Mikey was a comrade and a humane person doing a...

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...

Japan court rules for US military chopper flights http://www.deepikaglobal.com/ENG4_sub.asp?ccode=ENG4&newscode=71943 {EXCERPT} Deepika, India - 6 minutes ago TOKYO, Sept 16 (Reuters) A Japanese court today rejected a lawsuit by residents on the southern island of Okinawa demanding a local US...

Japan protests US military helicopter flight http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/T269760.htm {EXCERPT} Reuters AlertNet, UK - 16 hours ago TOKYO, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Japan on Sunday protested a US decision to fly military helicopters over its southern prefecture of Okinawa without fully...

Japan, U.S. aircraft share 'win-win' situation at Misawa (EXCERPT) , By Vince Little and Hana Kusumoto, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Sunday, October 12, 2003 In place for more than a quarter-century, the agreement allowing American and Japanese aircraft to share Misawa Air Base’s runway...

Did the Japanese battleship Yamato ever fire an AA salvo during WW2? A visiting friend of mine in the Navy told me the Japanese had a battery-fired AA weapon that was actually fired in battle. I guess it didn't work as the ship was sunk! Anyone know what this weapon was? I can't find anything...

No name given for the Japanese company. Anybody know what Japanese company might possess such capability? Mitsubishi comes to mind. They have divisions that are involved in nearly everything. Dave VIENNA, March 12 (Reuters) - A company from Japan, the only country to be attacked with an atomic...

Japanese forces arrive to help (EXCERPT) by Senior Airman James C. Dillard 386th Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs 1/30/2004 - SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFPN) -- Three Japanese air self-defense force C-130Hs arrived here Jan. 30, bringing to fruition an initial deployment plan Japanese forces thought...

Japanese Open House honors military aviation http://www.usmc.mil/marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/0/38A162DE5F68FD8885256F110016E14F?opendocument {EXCERPT} United States Marines (press release) - 14 hours ago photographers, or just observers, aviation lovers of all kinds enjoyed a special day of tribute to...

Here's a thought-- So many people seem to be upset that the U.S. targeted Hiroshima... So why ont arrest the Japanese in charge of dispersing their production capability. It makes sense-- if you say that the U.S. had some "responsibility" to avoid japanese casualties, even at the cost of their own,...

The Smithsonian staff should bring in poster-sized pics of the Rape of Nanking, chemical warfare-marred experimentation victims, the walking skeletons of the BurmarRailway and Bataan death march, and photo after photo of American marines lyin' face down and very dead in the water of every Pacific...

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...

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Lynch%20Wedding good for her. at least something good came out of Gulf War II. we seem to forget our humanity in war, but Jessica's story really touched a lot of lives. Here's to her happiness and a lasting solution to the...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch has signed a $1 million agreement with Alfred A. Knopf, giving the injured former U.S. Army private the chance to tell her own story, the publisher said on Tuesday. all the best -- Dan Ford email: www.danford.net/letters.htm#9 see the...

Anyone have a favorite or favorites Jet warbird(s) they'd like to have? Even if it's only a fantasy? Here's my choices in no order of preference: 1)F-4E 2)A-6E 3)A-4 (any variant) 4)A-7D/E 5)F-14 6)MiG-29

I am wonderning what the top speed (in mph) a clean F-15C, Mirage 2000, F-16C, and MiG-29 could accelerate to in level flight at optimum altitude (not just sea level) without afterburner. I usually see the top clean speed and the top sea level speed (with afternburner?) quoted, but rarely the top...

I know that some fighter jets have somewhat like WEP (war emergency power). MiG-21Bis/R-25 -13,000lb dry/15650 AFB/19-20,000 "Chrezvychayniy Regime" (WEP) Kfir C2/J79 -"Combat Plus" F16/J79 Prototype- "Combat Plus" F-8 Crusader "Waweoff power" Now, I know for a MiG. Any other airplanes/engines...

Does anyone know the products of combustion of, say, a ton, of jet fuel? Mike -- M.J.Powell

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Hi everyone. As those of you who regularly follow the newsgroups know, Jolly Green Giant (JGG, or Aerophotos) has claimed to have joined the RAAF as a trainee Life Support Fitter. This certainly seemed surprising to me as he had shown himself to be very politically orientated and certainly very...