Subject: P-3C Ditches with Four Engines Out, All Survive! Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:07:54 +0930 From: "Scet" Newsgroups: rec.aviation.military

The United States Bronze Star Registry An effort is now underway to register the names of all Americans, past and present, who received the Bronze Star. All those who received the Bronze Star, or know of a veteran -- living or deceased -- who received this High Award, can register at...

Can anyone tell me how similar these engines were to the Merlin? I know they were a derivative but being intended for ground use may be so totally different as to be useless for any aviation application. Why do I ask? An acquaintance has just acquired a complete Meteor engine and is looking to...

France downplays jet swap with Russia France says recent joint maneuvers in which Russian and French pilots flew each other's aircraft were not an effort to help Russia join NATO or the European Union, but simply "in the interest of world peace...

http://www.nationalreview.com/kerry/kerry200406020904.asp Gen. Richard Myers, in a May 2003 briefing, explained that a nuclear bunker buster could minimize the threat from biological or chemical weapons at an enemy site. By the time the nuclear bunker buster is fielded, both Iran and...

S.A. Military Aviation Pioneer Dies (EXCERPT) Burwell One Of First To Use Cockpit Instruments Posted: 3:00 p.m. CDT June 30, 2003 SAN ANTONIO -- Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. James Burwell, one of the first military aviators to fly using cockpit instruments, died recently at age 100.

Greetings all, I've just uploaded a photo walkaround of the P-51 Mustang for your enjoyment. Check it out at www.cybermodeler.com! Cheers, Michael Benolkin

Is there a consistent basis for this designation in aircraft armament?

We all have seen the movies were one pistol shot or what not causes the side of an airliner explode sucking the people, seats, etc. into the void. What would happen in the reality? Let's assume the plane is at the cruising altitude.

An officer never complains. An officer never explains. And an officer never allows himself to be put on the defensive. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

Joint Fifth Generation Fighter Project Proposed The government chairman, Mikhail Kas’yanov, announced the other day that he had reached agreements with the French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffaren regarding a joint project for creation of the fifth generation fighter. However, he has been quiet...

http://gazeta.ru/lenta.shtml?274014#274014 (in russian) Aug 25, 7:40 commander-in-chief of Russian NAVY admiral Kuroedov told press that forces of russian pacific ocean fleet have detected in Saturday and also today foreign submarines in the area near Kamchatka where large scale manoeuvres of...

At Alltel Stadium yesterday, I watched a B-2 bomber do a flyover, and what a site to behold. It's the first time I've seen this aircraft. You could hardly see it as it approached. No sound, but after it passed the stadium it was very loud. Here's a picture of the...

they took me back in time and the nsa or japan wired my head and now they know the idea came from me so if your back in time and wounder what happen they change tim liverance history for good. I work at rts wright industries and it a time travel trap mark and x advance tech then bring it back in...

Royal Navy's 800 Squadron page says "Each RN pilot faced the MiG-29 in combat and found the Sea Harrier to be a good match for the MiG. Thanks to the Blue Vixen radar the Sea Harrier won every time in beyond visual range engagements and also scored some notable successes when converting to the...

There was a camp in Phoenix- some of the German POWs heard that they were not too far from the Salt River, so they put together some kind of raft and got through the wire. Imagine their disappointment at reaching the rock-strewn ditch that passes for a river in Arizona. Incidentally, they...

Since days after 9/11, there has been a story floating around about a flight that carried a group of Saudi natives out of the US on 9/13/2001 while all air traffic was supposedly shut down. The Bush white house has denied that this flight had taken place. The FBI and FAA still maintain that this...

Mainlander *@*.* wrote in : http://onenews.nzoom.com/onenews_detail/0,1227,199182-1-7,00.html US military to the rescue Jun 19, 2003 The crew of an American military plane is being credited with rescuing

I am looking for info on how effective the f-104 was or would have been against the migs of the time. At least one account exists of f-104 shootdown near hainan by mig 19. Anyone have decent info in encounters such as 1958 Taiwan standoff, 1962 Cuban crisis, Berlin 1961, or others. A couple of...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- A $10,000 reward offered by the "Doonesbury" comic strip for proof that U.S. President George W. Bush served in the Alabama National Guard during the Vietnam War has elicited over 1,300 responses but turned up no credible evidence yet, the cartoonist said on...