What a disgusting bunch of liares those Neocons are. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

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Did United States air and naval air forces actually engage in that many Dogfights with North Vietamese aircraft during the Vietnam war ? Where did these planes take off from ? Bases in China ?

Dear newsgroup reader, Today 6th of June 2004 Airshow Action Photo Gallery with a new update: - Berlin Airshow ILA2004 Germany - 90's Airshow action pictures that I took in the 90's (nice pictures taken from tower at Scheveningen beach the Netherlands) - Result vote of the Airshow Action picture...

RCAF "North American Harvard MK II" 6x8 Artist's Print I have for sale the 6"x8" Artist's print of the "North American Harvard MK II" #20558 #3F.T.S. Claresholm - R.C.A.F." by artist Dan Ryan. Canadian Aviation Art by Artist Dan Ryan (1989). The piece shows a flying 20558, complete with the Royal...

I've Googled up what I could but I'm looking for some more dimensions... In particular major dimensions of the propellers, approx. diameter of fuselage at wings, and approx. thickness of wings at the fuselage... Thanks much. Cheers, -Ali -- OpenPGP Key: 030E44E6 --

Has the RAF confirmed that their T.1 and F.1 Typhoons are to be supplied without the mauser gun capabilities? According to Typhoon's entry on RAF's website there doesn't seem to have mention of a 27mm mauser on the fighter http://www.raf.mod.uk/equipment/typhoon.html Smart move for an aircraft...

This time in jpg format, plus a lot of pics from 2nd volume. Source: Wonders of Land & Sea (2 volume encyclopedia compiled 1913) -- Sarah H http://www.messybeast.com http://www.shartwell.freeserve.co.uk/folder404/firstamendment404.htm USA Patriot Act - First Amendment Not Found

David Pratt, Member of Parliament for Nepean-Carleton, has just been appointed Minister of National Defence. In a break from usual practice he has been appointed to the department for which he had the oversight committee, the Standing Committee on National Defence and...

Enola Gay Pilot Returns to Northern Marianas, By B.J. Reyes (EXCERPT) Associated Press Sunday, June 13, 2004; Page A12 PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii, June 12 -- As the pilot of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb, retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Paul W. Tibbets was not sure what to...

McGuire AFB bids goodbye to Vietnam-era planes during special http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12981325&BRD=1688&PAG=461&dept_id=41629&rfi=6 {EXCERPT} New Egypt Press, NJ - 23 hours ago Air Force crewmen and former pilots on hand for the ceremony were also feeling sentimental about their...

The Raven wrote: Whilst taking a 2minute break from some mind numbing work I pondered on the origin of the word "aeroplane" and it's definition. Interesting word once you get passed the now common "plane" equals aircraft. Initially, aircraft were "flying machines" or "airships" but at...

From Janes JSF security technology costing up to US$1bn By Bill Sweetman Up to US$1 billion of the projected cost overrun on the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) is attributable to the development of 'anti-tamper' (AT) technology to protect stealth features on the JSF, together...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40516-2003Sep20.html Awww, too bad. The two Gustav Weisskopf replicas flew easily enough, proving that the Wrights were dead wrong when they claimed the GW No.21 CANNOT FLY... just look at the design. Time to admit the real first to fly sustained...

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Air Force Academy Introduces Sweeping Changes, Looks to Future (EXCERPT) By Donna Miles American Forces Press Service COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Oct. 7, 2003 — When the Class of 2007 cadets reported for in-processing at the U.S. Air Force Academy http://www.usafa.af.mil/ in late June, they found...

Considering that indonesia can barely field a capable military and the rest in SE asia have small militaries, who are these cruise missiles directed against China perhaps? Could it be in response to countries in the region buying Su-27/30 long range strike planes? My guess is that US arms...

Something I saw raised a question in my mind: An MD-80's T-tail had one half pitched up and the other half pitched about neutral. My question is why any T-tail aircraft would allopw differential motion of the two halfs of the horizontal stab? It seems to me that the rolling couple such a position...

I'm no aerodynamicist but I've been running some numbers and noticed some interesting things. The SU-27 is credited with being more manueverable than F-15 and yet F-15 has a higher TTW number (except at gross) and a lower wing loading by a large margin (again except at gross). The SU should...

CNN reports: "In the last analysis, he seemed not terribly brave," Rumsfeld said. About 600 soldiers of the 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, and special operations forces of Task Force 121 conducted the raid in Ad Dawr, near a group of ramshackle buildings. They found Saddam hiding in a 6- to...