Greetings All, After reading Tony Williams' excellent post, and learning that air craft cannons actually shoot explosive rounds with triggers and fuses, I have to ask "What happens to the rounds that miss the target?" Was there a method to insure the round triggered prior to ground impact? I...

"Posterity: You will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." John Quincy Adams Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

Could I interest you in an island in the middle of a nice lake ? one that is almost completely dried up? Yes and apparently the dust from the lake is rather toxic. Ron Pilot/Wildland Firefighter

http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-13/1074236215160340.xml Notice that the V-22 is now up to $105 mil per unit and the F-22 at over $280 mil per unit- compared to $81 mil per F-35. I wonder how "supportive" the F-22 crowd will be when the unit cost exceeds $300 mil, reducing the...

YO-3A QUIET STAR NOW HAS ITS OWN WEB PAGE WWW.YO-3A.COM. WE ARE PLANNING A SPRING 2004 REUNION FOR LOCKHEED, NASA,ARMY AND ANYONE ELSE INVOLVED WITH THE YO-3A. PLEASE VISIT THE WEB SITE WWW.YO-3A.COM TO MAKE CONTACT AND GET INFORMATION. WE ARE ALSO LOOKING FOR VIETNAM ERA FILM ON THE YO-3A. ALSO...

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Does anyone have a picture of the b2's nav-lights on? I'm adding led mock-ups to a model and can't find a good reference photo online. I know there is the standard red on the left wing tip green on the right and a strobe on the front belly.. any others? -Niadh

http://www.sinodefence.com/airforce/aircraft/transport/b767.asp .... see what happens when you buy directly from Delta Airlines! Rob

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If anyone has any 90th Bomb Group info they'd like to share please contact me. As 90th Space Wing historian I am trying to reconnect our unit with its predecessor the 90th Bomb Group, also known as "The Jolly Rogers". I'm compiling a file of stories, documents and other items of historical...

Zond-2: http://www.sistemasdearmas.hpg.ig.com.br/notzond2.jpg Zond-3: http://www.sistemasdearmas.hpg.ig.com.br/notzond3.jpg Rob

See it he http://www.analisidifesa.it/articolo.shtm/id/2935/ver/EN Ariennya Romani

I saw the TV of the investigation and saw the result when the foam was fired at the left leading edge. The skin around the hole appeared to be rather thin. Perhaps a type of Carbon Fiber? Would anyone know, in simple terms, the Leading edge construction? Does anyone know if tiles are at the...

For those of you interested in air shows, both military and civilian, , and whose interest goes WAY beyond the norm and into the very guts of the subject; I'd like to announce that the consummate book on this subject "Zero Error Margin; Airshow Display Flying Analyzed " has just been released...

I am interested human powered flight, and I have a design for flexible spiral wings shaped like a cornucopia or the coils in an old telephone cord (See "Spring Wings" at http://patricktimony.tvheaven.com/catalog.html ). If anyone in the Washington DC area would be interested in collaborating...

I warned ya a coupla weeks ago, you didn't pay attention so here ya go! Hope you have a sense of humor, I have lots of these, when you tell them to your co-workers in the head, (you must know what a "head' is, you seem to know everything else about Navy terminology, including calling ships...

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Hi, Does anyone out there have a contact address or phone number for the 92 Squadron RAF Association? TIA Duncan

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Read, "The War Ended, But the Dying Went On". It is one of the stories on my website. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer