Bad pressure switches discovered in Ospreys JACKSONVILLE. N.C. - The military's fleet of V-22 Ospreys may be placed on an inspect-before-flight notice due to a faulty switch, a Naval Air Systems Command spokesman said. "That's yet to be determined," John Milliman, the NavAir spokesman, said...

I have been trying to find out how many hump=backed A-4Es there were? So far with no results. Any one have an idea. If you check the books about the A-4 there is a complete absence of info about how many A-4Es were fitted with the Avionics hump. Being and old AK, at one time, I would have thought...

Does anyone know what specification the Navy uses to define proper crash loading of structures in the cargo bay of the aircraft? I know the numbers 16G's forward, 20G's down, etc., but I'm assuming this is formally documented in a military or civilian standard. I'm not having much luck finding it.

I just got the Accurate Miniatures 1/48th scale SB2U-3 Vindicator the other day and it got me to wondering about this question. Most USN combat aircraft by this time had 3-bladed props, heck, even the F3F biplane had a 3-blader. Considering the efficiency and performance gains that could be...

www.defensedaily.com Marine Corps Plans To Keep Harriers Flying Until At Least 2021 June 20, 2007 The Marine Corps is taking several steps, including an airframe fatigue effort and work to maintain the supplier base, to ensure its fleet of Boeing AV-8B Harriers will continue to fly well into...

http://www.shephard.co.uk/Rotorhub/IndustryNews.aspx?Action=745115149&ID=891 5a99e-939e-4c85-8227-afecc6409b0b Rotorhub MV-22 Osprey Deemed Ready for Deployment HEADQUARTERS MARINE CORPS - Very recently it was announced that the Marine Corps' MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft achieved...

Recruits that fail at boot camp have set themselves on a course of failure for the rest of their lives. It's as simple as that. Will you be the next Marine Corps boot camp failure? Will you return home with your head hung low in shame? I thought I was ready for boot camp. I took my enlistment into...

Anyone have any sources for T-28 carrier landing photos? -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com

On 23 December, 1956, an FJ-3 Fury fighter plane was launched from the U. S. S. Shangri La while operating south of Japan. The FJ-3 did not follow normal departure procedures - instead it continued flight with it's landing gear and flaps still down while slowly banking left as the plane turned...

RAMN turned 11 years old on June 13th. Only regret is not to have made it moderated as the cross posted junk has been a pain to deal with. -- ACC USN ret NKX BIKF NAB CV-63 NIR

Hi, The best f-14 pilot in all over the world is the Jalal Zandi, the iranian f-14 pilot. He gained 12 confirmed air to air kills in war with iraq that is marvelous,

Through media we are updated about the spread of Military rules in E Asia. I came across a report in The Analyst Magazine investigating the reasons for the same http://www.theanalystmagazine.com/june2007/4.htm After reading the same one will get clear cut view with regard to their diplomatic...

New book on the 56 accounts... Debrief: A Complete History of U.S. Aerial Engagements - 1981 to the Present Craig Brown Hardcover: 224 pages Publisher: Schiffer Pub Ltd (October 15, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 0764327852 ISBN-13: 978-0764327858

I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer, The publican 'e up an' sez, 'We serve no redcoats here.' The girls be'ind the bar they laughed an' giggled fit to die, I outs into the street again an' to myself sez I: O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' Tommy, go away But it's 'Thank you,...

_China's Strategic Seapower: The politics of force modernisation in the nuclear age_ and _Imagined Enemies: China prepares for uncertain war_. Both by John Wilson Lewis and Xue Litai, Stanford University Press. Lewis and Xue have made a profession of studying Chinese military-political systems...

Funny cartoon! Bush and Putin as Darth Vaders ... http://tangibleinfo.blogspot.com/2007/06/putin-bush-poland-spaceweapons.html

in my humble opinion and pardon my ignorant grammar ,while Washington DC goes nowhere with corruption and incompetence, the "deals" go on: a) the Phone companies want to close down the copper lines,the dsl of everybody, so Covad,XO and Cavalier could go down and we would end up with only...

On Jun 2, 2:15 pm, tomcervo wrote: On May 30, 1:26?pm, wrote: Devastators after Midway? Alvin Kernan's "Other Battle of Midway" details the problem. The plane was obsolete but flyable; it was the torpedoes that were the problem. He's pretty...

AA77, the plane that crashed into the Pentagon, FlightData Recorder raw file DOWNLOAD LINK: http://u2r2h-documents.blogspot.com/2007/06/flight-77-flight-datarecorder-download.html American_77.fdr 25,165,994 bytes 6sep06 ======= AMERICAN_77.FDR ========= // L3 Communications, Aviation...

In their frustration for a successful offensive against Iran on the northern front between 12th and 22nd March of 1981, Iraq fired two Frog-7 surface-to-surface Rockets against cities of Dezful and Ahwaz. Within days after this attack, commanders of the 31st and 32nd Tactical Fighter Wing in...