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Starlifters retire from active-duty service http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123008650 {EXCERPT} by Tech. Sgt. Mark Diamond Air Mobility Command Public Affairs 9/15/2004 - SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. (AFPN) -- The last two active-duty C-141B Starlifter transport aircraft will retire Sept....

Stars and Stripes Offers Free Electronic Newspaper, By Sgt. 1st Class Doug Sample, USA (EXCERPT) American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, April 30, 2004 -- Service members who don't have access to the Stars and Stripes newspaper but do have access to a computer can now go online to read or...

Does anybody have any recent info on the stauts of the ABL programme? The latest I know is that the YAL-1 prototype has been flown, though as yet without many of the systems installed), production representative equipment was being installed in the fuselage of a grounded ex-Air India B747 and funds...

Status of Gulf War pilot still unknown (EXCERPT) By Robert Burns Associated Press WASHINGTON — U.S. investigators searching in Iraq for clues to the fate of missing Navy pilot Michael Scott Speicher, shot down on the opening night of the 1991 Gulf War, have returned to an early hypothesis: that...

Does anyone know the latest on the MIRACL laser? I know that it was test-fired in 1997 for the ASAT role, but has anything else come of it? Is it still being developed as an ASAT weapon or is there any other use for it now?

Is it a failiure? It seams so. F-117 shot down by a much cheaper system proves it. B2 is too expensive.

With a stealthy fighter you could make an attack on another aircraft without alerting them, except for the IR signature of the missile's rocket or ramjet engine. Is anybody planning a stealth AAM that uses a turbojet? -HJC

Hi guys, Does anyone know when the use of PT-13/17 Stearman's was phased out by the US armed services? Any ideas which training base used them last? TIA don

saw this, immediately thought of you. Just curious, have you seen it before? http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3278700853&category=15504 Gordon

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/01/16/bush.space.reut/index.html

STEP program helps advance hundreds of hand-picked airmen (EXCERPT) , By Kent Harris, Stars and Stripes European edition, Friday, September 19, 2003 A few hundred airmen around the globe get some good news each year — after they’ve received the bad news. That number could include as many as 42...

Just watched another WWII dogfight movie scene where the control stick shakes in unison with the firing guns. Is this Hollywood or did the firing of the guns carry through to the controls and cause stick shake as the movies depict? John

To: The Agents who read http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WACOuncensored/ Please pass this message on to the man you have sworn to protect while he murders innocents and destroys this nation through his fornications with Israel... *THE MOTHER OF WHORES AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH*

Still unreported: The pay-off in the Air Guard fix http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=17565 {EXCERPT} Working for Change, CA - 4 hours ago In 1968, former Congressman George Herbert Walker Bush of Texas, fresh from voting to send other men's sons to Vietnam, enlisted his own son...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36979-2003Dec28.html First used in the second Gulf war in 1990, the stop loss system has become the new draft. It is a win-win for the country, because young men and woman don't have to be conscripted out of civilian life, while keeping soldiers...

Strafing as if in a Dream It was a rare mission for us. Marauders were never meant to be thrown around at low level at high speed. And this was a low-level mission. We were to bomb a military target in a small city. Then we were to go down on the deck and strafe. It was the first strafing mission...

Strafing as if in a Dream It was a rare mission for us. Marauders were never meant to be thrown around at low level at high speed. And this was a low-level mission. We were to bomb a military target in a small city. Then we were to go down on the deck and strafe. It was the first strafing mission...

http://www.f-22raptor.com/ Not covered up , what is it? ballistic test rig??, Traing airframe??. A cheap tarpaulin would have been better than relying on its inherent stealth.:-) Cheers John Cook

Strategic Command Missions Rely on Space (EXCERPT) By Maj. John Paradis, USAF Special to American Forces Press Service OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 26, 2003 -- Applying the operational experience gained during the global war on terrorism to flesh out the use of space forces in theater operations is one...