I found this earlier today, it may not be new to yourselves - but the thought of some pigeon tapping away frantically inside a speeding missile had me in stiches! http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m3161/24_47/57843983/p1/article.jhtml Hope it tickles something, Jim Doyle

According to CNN, the USAF and DOE are investigating the reported find of the notorious Tybee Island Mk 15 that had been jettisoned by a B-47 after its collision with a F-86 in 1958. A retired USAF LTC led the group that has found what is described as a large metallic object with...

Is it OK to post an aviation-related question in this NG and not mention B*sh or K*rry? The Times published a review last week about a book covering the allied crossing of the Rhine in 1945. The accompanying picture, captioned as being US bombers over said river, showed a formation of B-29s (I...

http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://www.kmweg.de/english/index.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3DKMW,%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DG Bradley is a P.O.S. by comparison. Rob

I've been looking through Shlomo Aloni's Osprey book on Israeli F-4 Phantom aces, and I note that around the time of the '73 war when they want to carry AIM-9s, they either 1. don't carry any A/G stores on that pylon (when carrying two AIM-9D/Gs on the shoulder mounts), or 2. only carry a single...

Francis Dean in America's Hundred Thousand has a table of the 8 main WWII fighter types, by numbers produced and I am wondering about the differences he has with the USAAF Statistical digest. The big difference is the P-40 production June to August 1942, Dean says 560 the Digest says 1,158. As a...

Kerry had a total of four months experience commanding a patrol boat as part of the brown water navy in Vietnam thirty years ago. Bush has over two and a half years (and counting) experience commanding the most lethal military force ever seen in the history of man! So who actually has the most...

Can anyone tell me how I can find out where the nearest DC-3 to me is located? I live near Eglin AFB, in Florida (about 40 miles east of Pensacola). I need to gather some information on its structure. TIA. Ed "If an enemy power is bent on conquering you, and proposed to turn all of his resources to...

http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123007285 Lockheed Martin originally contracted with the U.S. Marine Corps to build the STOVL variant of the F-35 to replace the aging AV-8B Harrier. The Air Force will take over the program in June, as part of the service’s commitment to improving...

A nice link for those unfamiliar with a single-seat, single-engine aircraft and some folks who qualified to fly them: http://www.marchfield.org/f102a.htm Ed Rasimus Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret) "When Thunder Rolled" Smithsonian Institution Press

Can someone suggest a nice book on Russian fighters and maybe bombers? I'm looking for lots of technical detail. Best would be discussions on why they made the design decisions they chose. -Thanks

http://vayu-sena.tripod.com/info-su30mki.html Please note photos of rear-firing missile and the statement about "near-zero airspeed" at high AOA. Rob

Russia is actually much closer to developing an effective anti-ballistic missile defense system than the United States. Russia's latest S-400 surface-to-air missile system is currently in its final stage of testing and is due to enter service in 2001-2002. The S-400 is the only SAM system in the...

Capt Al Haynes of United Flight 233 has a daughter who needs a bone marrow transplant to save her life. She must raise 250,000 dollars to cover the costs. See http://www.friendsoflaurie.com for details. Capt Haynes was chief pilot of the DC10 that lost all its hydraulics and thus the flight...

On going discussion we are having....only one black and white picture shows landing and it is suspect. Did this late WWII German fighter fly or was it even built? TIA,

On this Veteran's Day think once more of our absent friends who will sleep forever in foreign soil. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

News just in from RAF MOD in UK Eurofighter for the RAF it seems is to be axed after only 144 aircraft due to engine and delivery failures... from the UK MOD UCAV to replace it instead it seems. is the eurofighter program totally dead now ? time will tell but with 1/2 the total order cancelled...

Bush has already won re-election from http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/04/159216 Meanwhile in Ohio, Diebold Inc. is one of the companies vying to sell electronic voting machines in that state. Diebold and its CEO have strong Republican ties, specifically to the Bush...

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...

I just received the North Island Weekender, newspaper North Vancouver Island, and it contains a story honouring a 82 year young WWII Veteran, former RCAF pilot Ken Moore, recognized for helping sink two German submarines within 22 minutes on June 7, 1944 in a B24 Liberator. He was with 224...