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Can I ask why..? Just curious as to where this info is heading. Such work has been done, in some cases, in front of me. v/r Gordon ====(A+C==== USN SAR Aircrew "Got anything on your radar, SENSO?"

Reading a book,Wheels for the World by Douglas Brinkley, Henry Ford, his company. In it he states that the British government approached Bill Knudsen with "a dire order for production of the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine" in 1940. The Ford Motor Company had previouslr accepted a contract to...

Air Force Print News for Aug. 24, 2004 Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 16:12:41 -0500 Today's stories include: Test cell maintainers keep aircraft engines revving http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123008486 Maintainers race clock at Kyrgyzstan

Airport air show debut a success Displays thrill thousands, 'plane nut' calls show great http://www.herald.ns.ca/stories/2004/09/12/fMetro173.raw.html {EXCERPT} , By PAT LEE / Staff Reporter The skies were unusually busy Saturday above Halifax International Airport - it was the host of the...

Wow, we've just set up a forum section for noted aviation historian and photographer Bill Larkins, who will host and moderate a forum discussing historic airplanes on our website!!! We feel honored to welcome this man into the forum system at aafo.com and we'd like to invite you over to discuss...

Is Bush Doomed? by Paul Craig Roberts Fear must be coursing through President Bush's veins as he realizes the Iraqi trap in which the neocons have placed him. Bush is caught between an Iraqi civil war and a wider insurgency. Desperate to extricate himself from the weekly carnage well before...

Hi Guys, Just wondering what the alternate (losing) choices were for the main US older fighter aircraft? eg. I know the YF17 lost out to the F18... But what were the competitors to the rest (you don't need to go back too far) - that's if they actually HAD competitors... F14?

http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/190-full.html#186582 -John *You are nothing until you have flown a Douglas, Lockheed, Grumman or North American*

I came across an interesting reference in a history of aircraft markings book to an apparently short lived, early war upper-wing national marking for WW1 RAF night bombers. The reference described it simply as a white disc used only on night bombers. This marking was different from the white...

Monday, 17 May 2004 Interesting comms today: some concerning one of the nation's newest acft, the F/A-22 now at Tyndall AFB, and some about the good old days when "The Real Stuff" was going on at Cape Canaveral, and I was there. AIR TRANSPORT 400: DC-8, Little Rock (USAF Contractor) 8:58am: Lands...

Rafael is developing an IR guided missile countermeasure system called AIM-AIR. It basically uses sensors to track any IR guided missiles fired at an aircraft and it uses lasers to then burn the guidance head of the IR guided missile. Can missile developers get around this by maybe adding a filter...

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991859 Rob

I am looking to get into freelance aerospace and defense consulting with any company looking to immediately start doing business with the Government, but really don't know how to start. I have over 20-years aerospace and defense spares, repairs, and consumable parts procurement experience with...

In a Brazilian military website it has a small article on the PAK-FA fighter. It says that the name will be the Sukhoi T-50 and that it will not have the forward swept wings as the Su-47 prototype. The prototype is expected to fly in 2006/2007 with initial in-service around 2012. I guess we may be...

I'm wrapping up my Oshkosh scrapbook for this year and doing some last minute editing. It's time for some expert help from the warbird crowd. Please ID these two aircraft. I called this one a YAK but I'm not positive. If you can positively ID the plane, what features give it...

Where'd the planes come from that were shown at the beginning of the movie? Where are they now? And for a question not based on reality, why wasn't the desert winds blowing them around? The aliens didn't leave them tied down or chocked.

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http://www.pogo.org/p/defense/do-000812-f22.htm Rob