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Air Force Print News for Dec. 1, 2003 Fueling up (Stand-alone photos) http://www.af.mil/stories/story.asp?storyID=123006121 Tax statements available on myPay http://www.af.mil/stories/story.asp?storyID=123006118

Veteran fighter pilots try to help close training gap (EXCERPT) Associated Press SUMTER--The Air Force is dealing with a training gap, By pairing veteran Reserve fighter pilots with less-experienced fliers. While the Air Force needs 330 to 380 new pilots a year, it has the resources to train...

I found a photo of a P47 in my dad's album with the noseart 'Beatrice'. It was taken in Nuthampstead, England in WWII--he was a B-17 bomber pilot. If anyone knew or knows the pilot, I'd be happy to scan a photo for him. Best wishes for the holidays. Frank (steelhealr)

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When did the MiG-29 receive capability to fire the vectored-thrust R-73 off-boresight missles using helmet-mounted targeting? Did the MiG-29 have R-73's and the helmet-mounted display/targeting system since the beginning--that is, since the MiG-29A first became operational in 1984 (or was it...

Scott Ferrin wrote in message ... On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 16:46:31 GMT, Chad Irby wrote: In article , (robert arndt) wrote: ...

Robert J. Kolker wrote: Dave J wrote: or you can say it in one of those well-modulated professional soldier voices like in the Clancy movies "we need to eliminate their centers of production, and their ability to continue to make war". We already proved we'd do it at Dresden and...

Any comments, questions or added information welcome! http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/southfly/index.htm

OK, here is a groaner that is a bit relevant to the disarming those around POTUS. Before the flames start, hey, it's just a joke. Just groan and move on. http://www.politicalstrikes.com/images/ps949.jpg

I was watching a program on the Canadian Discovery Channel on the American Rocket Program, in particular, when the Bell X-1 broke the "so called" sound barrier in 1947. It stated that ground crews were startled by the "first ever" sonic boom. The first ever perhaps, produced by a manned aircraft,...

1986 "Fighting Jets" Hardcover Edition Book I have for sale the 1986 Hardcover Edition Book "Fighting Jets" by Bryce Walker. The hardcover edition contains 176 pages of text as well as full-color, and vintage black & white photographs profiling Fighting Jets of the world. Included are chapters on:...

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/11/22/sprj.irq.main/index.html This story is claiming that a MANPAD hit a courier aircraft today. If the story is correct it was an SA-7, I would think a 7b. Imagine how much better something designed in the last quarter century might do? A few months ago...

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Student invents new math process (EXCERPT) by Mike Wallace Aeronautical Systems Center Public Affairs 11/18/2003 - WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFPN) -- Killie Rick found a new solution to subtraction problems involving whole numbers and fractions. She used the concept of negative...

I was at a speech last week given by an ex-pilot who talked about how he went supersonic in a Navy jet (their first jet that could break the sound barrier). The aircraft would need to be put into a dive though...approaching MACH 1 the plane would shake like crazy with the helmet banging against the...

In the last 10 or so years since the end of the cold war, have any new weapon systems come on-line? -- Spend a little more time feeding the space between your ears. 16th saying of Bernard

PRAGUE, Dec 1 (Reuters) - The Czech government should pick Swedish JAS 39 Gripen fighter planes to replace the NATO member's retiring fleet of Soviet MiG-21s, a commission evaluating bids for the combat jets has recommended. A Defence Ministry spokesman told Reuters on Monday that the commission...

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...