What ac has spent the greatest % of it's life in the air- excluding the ac that crashed on it's first flight. Thanks Pat

Posted this on a thread but the guys were too busy flaming each other to notice or give an intelligent answer. Trying again......... I am having a debate on the subject of whether planes like the BF109 and FW190 were really as unstable and prone to stalls and spins at the drop of a hat as modelled...

December issue of Citizen Airman available (EXCERPT) 11/26/2003 - ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. (AFPN) -- Life is returning to normal for thousands of Air Force reservists mobilized -- some for as long as two years -- after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. For many reservists, the transition...

General proud of Native-American heritage (EXCERPT) by Rudi Williams American Forces Press Service 11/26/2003 - WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- When Brig. Gen. LaRita Aragon was growing up in Dale, Okla. -- population about 300 -- in the '50s, '60s and '70s, being an American Indian was not in vogue. But...

Air Force Print News for Nov. 25, 2003 It's target time (Stand-alone photos) http://www.af.mil/stories/story.asp?storyID=123006098 Act gives commissary, other benefits http://www.af.mil/stories/story.asp?storyID=123006093

Take a look at this 737 belly landing video clips. http://radioscanning.wox.org/Scanner/Sounds/video/737gear.mpeg On a first sequence it appears the pilot is trying to get the gear unjammed by bouncing the aircraft on the good landing gear. The second sequence shows the actual landing. But I am...

Sirs, Can anyone please tell me when a P-3C Orion completes a mission where the information it has collected is sent? I have been trying, so far without any success, to learn where these records might be archived. Would they be sent out to a higher command as a "Mission Report" or included as part...

Hey guys it's me again. How big of a factor is GPA in getting a good aerospace job at a cool company? The line "...Do good in school" is always given in advice when I was growing up. To tell the truth I was holding a decent 3.3gpa untill I hit my math sequence at college. Now I have no...

Chance I may get a trip out to "Lost Wages" soon. Any don't miss sites to try and convince my wife I just have to visit? Thanks in advance MAH

Does anyone know a source for an approximate unit price for an Mi-26 "Halo" heavy lift helicopter? -- Matthew Saroff

http://www.msnbc.com/news/998240.asp?cp1=1 -HJC

Hello We need help to find a log or the story about 2nd July 1944. Her you find a the story om my Sq. 26 web page, http://www.holum.net/gen/squadron26.htm#A%20tragic%20day%20for%2026%20sqn Any tip on sourches? Any advice will be positive.

Hello Ed.....I was trying to track down some of the airplanes my dad flew and came upon his log books....He passed 9-15-01 and I am the repository of all his "military" stuff....anyway I was looking for serial numbers and he didn't keep a record of the serial numbers in his log books, oh...

Flight Simulators as used on PC's should not be called simulators because they simulate too damned little. Call them flight trainers. That is a far more accurate description by far. Except the ones that are just games. Call them flight games. After all else has failed, always resort to reality no...

Hello, I'm looking for pictures of algerian Su-30 MK. Do you have it ? Thanks ------------------------------------------------------ Benoit MAREMBERT LFRD, Aéro-club de la côte d'émeraude - Dinard-Pleurtuit

Air Force Print News for Nov. 24, 2003 Horsing around (Stand-alone photos) http://www.af.mil/stories/story.asp?storyID=123006081 Pave Low crashes in Afghanistan http://www.af.mil/stories/story.asp?storyID=123006084

After 23 years, Marines get last Super Stallion CH-53E helicopter (EXCERPT), by Holly Hickman ASSOCIATED PRESS 7:19 p.m. November 24, 2003 NEW RIVER MARINE CORPS AIR STATION, N.C. – The CH-53 helicopter is built for heavy loads – carrying the weight of four decades, three wars and dozens of...

Will the increased cruising speed of the Osprey make it a better bet for going downtown in the third world than the current fleet of helicopters? -HJC

http://www.luft46.com/misc/fa269.html Rob

http://www.diveweb.com/rovs/features/021.01.htm Rob