It might help to note that Arsenal aircraft are almost always forgotten when WW2 aircraft are mentioned. It is little known that the VG 30 attained 500 mph in a dive between 13,125 and 6,260 ft in July 1939*- before the Corsair hit 400 mph in Oct 1940. Arsenal then tried to produce the VG 33...

from http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/inring.htm Air National Guard Maj. Harry Schmidt steadfastly has remained silent ever since the Air Force began investigating him in the "friendly fire" deaths of Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan. Now, Maj. Schmidt is speaking for the first time via a...

Anyone catch this on the news channels? A contingent of US military experts including heavily armed US Marines landed today at the US Embassy compound helipad in Monrovia, Liberia aboard.....a Russian Mi-8T helicopter. Nice looking ship, hooked up with rescue winch, in blue-white colors. It had...

are variable geometry intakes on fighter aircraft primarily there to reduce ram drag or to manipulate the shock wave in the nacelle? -- Curiosity killed the cat, and I'm gonna find out why!

I have often wondered. Given a 24 hour advanced notice that an attack was eminent in 72 hours or less, what would have been the outcome at Pearl Harbor? Say on dec 6, Pearl was given intel that an attack would come anytime in the next 72 hours. What could have been done differently to affect the...

I ran into quite a few guys who flew P-39's. The all said the same thing. It had dangerous flat spin characteristics. . Benig bombardier I asked, "what the hell is .that?" They explained. I don't remember what they said so I can't explain it here. But I am sure guys like Ed and Dudley...

The recent thread on "most beautiful things" has brought back many memories. We were flying a maximum effort (56 Marauders) heading East into Germany We were in the number two slot in the high flight flying deputy lead. Way in the distance I saw a tiny spot coming toward us As it came closer I saw...

On an earlier thread, some despicable mysogynist wondered whether a female suicide bomber got the 72 virgins issued to martyrs in heaven, which led some other lowlife to speculate that instead she might be multiplied into the 72 virgins. Well, further to those thoughts, here's a note from this...

http://www.geocities.com/fscswheelsvstracks/sld025.htm UK Tracer/US FSCS Rob

FORMATIONS, BOMB RUNS AND RADIUS OF ACTION Formation flying burned fuel. Lots of fuel. And the tighter the formation the the more fuel burned. And the further back you were in the formation the more fuel burned. Look at it this way. The lead plane set throttles for the desired IAS and pretty...

Fire officer tops in field — again (EXCERPT) , By Franklin Fisher, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Tuesday, October 14, 2003 These days, young airmen call him “sergeant two-time.” It started in August after Air Force Master Sgt. Michael L. Rosser earned a top-level military fire services...

http://w3.kill-9.com/rpg-man.mpg There is an mpeg file circulating around the net, showing a guy aiming a rocket launcher at ??? and I was curious if anybody else sees the same things that I do. Contrary to popular opinion, I believe all shots that were fired at this guy were fired from behind.

Excuse me please, but what frontline aircraft and weapons do each of these nations possess in the event of another Arab-Israeli war? Do either of them have anything remotely as good as the Israelis? I know Syria has a bunch of different MiGs and Iran has a mix of MiGs and left-over F-4s and...

Vietnam era F-4 guys got anyone interested. The 8th Black Sheep guys are now flying F-117s. ******* Blacksheep, Some sad news; Paul Chase passed away on Tuesday June 24th. I have included an email from Les Prichard, a mutual friend. Jon Davis, Ed DiBello and I plan to attend the memorial and...

Sehr verehrte Kunden, Sonderaktion/Bargain/Restposten/Second Hand/Platz machen vom 27.07.2003 bis 15.09.2003 Waffen Arsenal 3,Nashorn,Hummel,Brummbär 10,- EU 15,Junkers Ju 88 Heft 1 10,- EU 18,Panzer I ...

I think it will lose any fight against a French Mirage, because the French planes are much superior.

FoxNews: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,91334,00.html Report: Seven Killed at Mississippi Defense Plant Tuesday, July 08, 2003 MERIDIAN, Miss. — A gunman opened fire at a Lockheed Martin plant

Citizens for Honest Fighter Pilots Open Letter To Media http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=8954&fcategory_desc=Under%20Reported {EXCERPT} Independent Media TV - 4 hours ago to coverage of allegations about Bush's military service in the National Guard, as was given to the...

I had a wound over my eyebrow which required six stitches while serving in Viet Nam and I didn't get a purple heart. I think the fact that Kerry's PH was issued in spite of the fact that his lesser wound resulted from misemployment of his own weapon indicates that I should have received the PH as...

Hey Gang: So with all of the recent anonymous smear campaigns- unsubstantiated, "howler" type accusations- you know, the ones from anonymous posters with all of the ~~~ symbols etc. . . . .. . . does anyone want to take up a rational, fact based discussion of the premise that "both sides do it" ...