Due to popular demand, AeroFile is keeping the pricing the same as the introductory price for the second edition of "Military Aircraft Designations and Systems". The 2002 Edition is completely reworked and updated, it now features designations from six countries including Canada, United...

DETHRONE THE DUBYA Help Dethrone The Dubya The Worst President In A Long, Long Time Who Should Have Concentrated On Osama Who Has Left Afghanistan In Chaos Who Led Us Into Iraq Under False Pretences Who Bungled That Very Same War And Turned Iraq Into A New Terrorist Base Lost 1,000 Americans,...

Was anyone in Kent this weekend who recognised the fighter doing the low passes over the World War 2 display?

What was the timetable for British development for their 20 mm cannon ammuniation during WW2? I'm aware that RAF tried to install first cannons to Spit Is but this was initially a failure. Early Spit V models were introduced with 60 round supply to the Hispanos, later with 120 rounds per gun. Some...

Simply a good story! http://www.staugustine.com/stories/030404/new_2166574.shtml Chuck, St. Augustine FL VC-8, VAH-11, VAH-1, FAITCLANT, VQ-2 1953 to 1963 HEAVY ATTACK COMPOSITE (VC-5,6,7,8,9) WEBSITE

Rare 1942 photo of Me-109 atop a DFS 230 further down the page: http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/aircraft/WWII/DFS230-glider/info/info.htm Rob

In the test pilot thread I mentioned Hanna Reitsch and some of her aircraft flown. I mentioned the See Adler (Sea Eagle) amphibian glider which most of you have never heard of. Here is a photo of it(1935): http://es.geocities.com/los_caranchos/images/F44.jpg This was Hans Jacobs designed glider...

In the test pilot thread I mentioned Hanna Reitsch and some of her aircraft flown. I mentioned the See Adler (Sea Eagle) amphibian glider which most of you have never heard of. Here is a photo of it(1935): http://es.geocities.com/los_caranchos/images/F44.jpg This was Hans Jacobs designed glider...

In the test pilot thread I mentioned Hanna Reitsch and some of her aircraft flown. I mentioned the See Adler (Sea Eagle) amphibian glider which most of you have never heard of. Here is a photo of it(1935): http://es.geocities.com/los_caranchos/images/F44.jpg This was Hans Jacobs designed glider...

In the test pilot thread I mentioned Hanna Reitsch and some of her aircraft flown. I mentioned the See Adler (Sea Eagle) amphibian glider which most of you have never heard of. Here is a photo of it(1935): http://es.geocities.com/los_caranchos/images/F44.jpg This was Hans Jacobs designed glider...

In the test pilot thread I mentioned Hanna Reitsch and some of her aircraft flown. I mentioned the See Adler (Sea Eagle) amphibian glider which most of you have never heard of. Here is a photo of it(1935): http://es.geocities.com/los_caranchos/images/F44.jpg This was Hans Jacobs designed glider...

In the test pilot thread I mentioned Hanna Reitsch and some of her aircraft flown. I mentioned the See Adler (Sea Eagle) amphibian glider which most of you have never heard of. Here is a photo of it(1935): http://es.geocities.com/los_caranchos/images/F44.jpg This was Hans Jacobs designed glider...

Diane Michaels, a self-described former Air Force brat (EXCERPT) Rantoul 10 years later: Steady climb, by TIM MITCHELL © 2003 THE NEWS-GAZETTE Published Online August 31, 2003 RANTOUL – When Chanute Air Force Base closed on Sept. 30, 1993, leaving a large portion of northern Champaign County real...

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The Air Force doesn't have enough planes to fly Stryker Force around the world when it needs to go someplace? Since when did the Air Force have a shortage of planes?

Back from spending a lovely week of vacation out on Block Island off the coast of Rhode Island, reading about the disastrous Sydney to Hobart sailboat race of 1998 (probably not a good read while vacationing on a sailboat) and then Ed's book "When Thunder Rolled". Perhaps Ed's book got me into a...

http://globalsecurity.org/org/news/2004/040104-f-22.htm "They're just trying to find a role for this plane because they've sunk so much money into it," Riccioni said. -HJC

Reading what appears to be a solid history of FDR and espionage. Author makes the flat statement that in 1940 someone in the Norden plant smuggled out the plans, which went to Germany. From these, the Germans "developed their own bombsight," presumably based on the Norden. The author points out the...

Earlier this year, the British govmt spent GBP 800 million on 20 Hawk Mk 128 trainer aircraft. In a highly unusual step, the MoD's permanent secretary, Sir Kevin Tebbit, refused to sign the contract because he thought it was a waste of money. He only signed when his boss, Defence Secretary Geoff...

Just watched the "Giant in the Sky" documentary about the B-52 Stratofortress and it mentionned alot about the first aircraft with "Wing Flex" technology. Did Boeing use the same technology when they designned the Dash 80 aka C-135/707 ?