Kevin Brooks wrote: "John Penta" wrote in message ... On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 18:51:31 GMT, Guy Alcala wrote: If you're serious about this, you're going to...

Hi, BBC News is reporting today (Friday 3 September) the crash of an RAF Canberra at RAF Marham - two crew killed, one injured. From the photos it looked to be a PR.9, and didn't look too badly damaged. Duncan

Little Friend takes Big Brother Home We were flying a maximum effort (56 Marauders) heading East into Germany We were in the number two slot in the high flight flying deputy lead. Way in the distance I saw a tiny spot coming toward us. As it came closer I saw it was a single B-17. When it came...

Watch carefully. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

Can anyone tell me about the Albemarle light bomber? -- G Walker

ubject: Lieutenant Bush --- The officer who no one remembers From: Date: 9/9/2004 12:09 PM Pacific Standard Time Message-id: Lieutenant Bush --- The officer who no one...

Watching the Ultralight tow planes at the Finger Lakes Aerosport Park (http://www.fingerlakesaerosportpark.com/) Labor Day Week fly-in, it occurred to me that WWI fighters could have solved their gun aim/synchronization problems easily by adopting a pusher prop configuration. Wondering why this...

From: Roedy Green Date: 9/12/2004 12:58 PM Central Daylight Time Message-id: On 12 Sep 2004 09:09:58 -0700, (Bobby Fischler) wrote or quoted : A lot more people remember John F. Kerry...

Hello, Non-white, poor, while rubber necking a car fire, get blasted by white, American Mercenaries. See?! Now youse know where youse all stand, and what is about to happen to youse all, American, po, non-white citizens. You be scared, honey, next time you see an Apache a hangen over you rug . ....

Hi guys, Does anyone know when the use of PT-13/17 Stearman's was phased out by the US armed services? Any ideas which training base used them last? TIA don

Subject: babble, was Why didn't Bush fight? From: "S. O. Damocles" Date: 8/29/2004 2:09 PM Pacific Standard Time Message-id: Bob Coe wrote: "S. O. Damocles" wrote Perry wrote: On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 14:40:55...

"Says retired Air Force Gen. Merrill McPeak, a member of the group who is advising John Kerry but was Oregon chairman for the Dole campaign in 1996 and a Veteran for Bush in 2000: “I don’t think that this accusation of politics on my part will wash. It’s just this administration has gone away...

On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 22:24:01 -0500, Stop SPAM wrote: April 13, 1945: Today I saw one of those hated B-52s for the first time. Probably came from the same pen as the jet fuel spilled on the WWII carrier decks in "Flyboys". The Japanese called the B-29 the bee nee koo...

Wondering is someone can help me out and tell me what the item is on the 2 links below. It has 2 triggers and was made by Clarke Aero Pasadena. It was with a lot of WWII radio gear I purchased, so I imagine its from a WWII era plane, but would anyone be able to tell me what its exactly called and...

In addition to bona fide aviation postings, let's limit our OT stuff to Olympics results instead of continuing to jiggle the gag reflex with the repetitious political garbage that continually reappears here. It won't last forever and will give us a welcome reprieve from the seemingly endless crap...

Hi, Have posted photos of my 1:48 Tamiya Spitfire with resin 'C' wing here... http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/southfly/spitfirevc.htm Hope this isn't too cheeky but the model is also for sale on trade-me...

airliners.net has a pic of N199AB with a caption that it's been returned to flying status. does anyone have more info on this? that would be a really amazing (and expensive) undertaking. iirc they only made a few dozen of these in total. here's a link to...

What's Wrong with Economics and how can it be Fixed Traditionally economics is the study of how scarce resources are or should be allocated. In particular, it has involved themes such as choices, trade-offs, markets, prices, information, needs, behaviour, satisfaction, business, government, growth...

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

Writes John Fund in the email Political Diary: ********************************************** CBS isn't saying whether the Kerry campaign or prominent Democrats were the origin of the highly suspicious documents the network used to challenge George W. Bush's Vietnam-era Air National Guard...