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Hello to the group. I just read a Google groups thread from a few years ago, on the Allison V-1710 engine. Two of the posts included a reference to a DARPA project to develop an engine for long range cruise missiles. It used a diesel engine as its core. Can anyone provide information on this...

So.... if the USAF needed quick bombers, of the heavy kind.... Could this work? Wing racks might be doable.... I am not sure about putting in a bomb bay, though doing it ahead and aft of the wing and gear cluster might be doable.

(William Brennan) wrote: I've done a tremendous amount of research on the subject and found that beheadings, suicide bombings, driving airplanes into buildings, and all the rest of what the Muslims is doing is just as illegal as what the Americans are...

I've seen a few ideas for Tilt-rotors that involve the idea of using the props up to about 300 MPH, and then feathering them and folding them back against the body of the engine, converting ti to a pure turbofan. Is this just speculation, or has there been any real work done on this, and if so,...

"WASHINGTON, June 22 — Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz, a prime architect of the Bush administration's Iraq policy, said Tuesday that the Pentagon had underestimated the violent tenacity of an insurgency that formed after Baghdad fell, and he acknowledged that the United States may be...

St. Petersburg Times, November 10, 2000: "State prosecutors are investigating whether a forged absentee ballot in Escambia County was part of a broader voter-fraud scheme, as new reports of voting irregularities, including intimidation of minority voters, continued to surface around the...

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Chlorine gas train collides with ammonium nitrate train head on. Three people dead so far. You really don't need any terrorists, you can do it alone! What about US railroad safety? There have been so many terrible accidents, almost like...

just found this portrait on the web http://www.super-mystere.net/aaw/planche/pages/44.htm it shows what looks like a me-323 being pestered by a RAF B-26 Marauder. So now to bring in question the authenticity of the painting does anyone here agree that the Marauder in the picture cannot possibly...

Air Force brigadier general fondly remembers 18th Wing command, which he’ll hand over June 24, By David Allen, Stars and Stripes (EXCERPT) Pacific edition, Tuesday, June 8, 2004 KADENA AIR BASE, Okinawa — Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Remington has two words of advice for his replacement: “Hang on!” “He’s...

Could anyone point me in the right direction?! I'm searching for a copy of the flight test reports for the Westland Lysander P10 (1942) If it helps I believe the test pilot was one Harald Penrose. The local library has been unable to help and nothing has come up on the Internet. Any help would be...

I am trying to find identify the fuselage "coding" on Lt. Gerald A. Anderson's Corsair IV. All I know for sure is that his aircraft's registration number was "KD546" from HMS Formidable's 1845 Squadron. Lt. Anderson, who came from Trenton Ontario, was killed on August 9, 1945 when he crashed into...

Time to time I come across fighter aircraft instrument panel photographic images and find no red line limit on the airspeed indicator. What is the policy and who puts the red line on the airspeed indicator? Do red line speed change depending on aircraft loading? Do they rub it off for...

OK, trying a new heading, just in case: I am debating online with somebody who claims the descending turn of the Boeing 757 over the DC mall was some aerobatic maneuver. I am betting a 757 can do that without unduly stressing the plane, in emergency conditions. He turned 270 degrees in 2.5...

To those who flew on D-Day with us be proud of your achiement in what may have been the most important single day of battle in the history of the world. Tomorrow I'll post an account of the missions flown and targets hit and results achieved by the 344th Bomb Group and its 4 squadrons on that...

This book, which I found in the public library, expresses a different point of view regarding aces in World War One. The Dream of Civilized Warfa World War I Flying Aces and the American...

Not ALL Americans are WAR---whores X98\ ////////////// Thousands march in US

The US doesn't even have a democratically-elected president any more.....!!! What would the founding fathers have made of that?!?!?!?! Duties of US president is mainly ceremonial,he is basically a butler who supposed to serve meals cooked by the chief cooks to the people. So elected president...

As to other Soviet/Russian copies, ever see something that looks like this before?: http://207.151.154.167/catalog/images/al/108/12155757.jpg http://207.151.154.167/catalog/images/al/108/12155808.jpg http://207.151.154.167/catalog/images/al/108/12155821.jpg This is the Myasishchev M-67 LK-M...