WASHINGTON One of the Air Force's prized and politically vulnerable F/A-22 Raptor fighter jets nearly crashed during a recent practice flight, prompting an investigation, service officials confirm. The previously unreported incident occurred Sept. 19 near Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., officials...

Like it ... now all we need is a fat cat $100K donor like the Swift Boat = Liars have! I still wonder how many of the members of Lt Bush's = Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT) class that graduated in November 1969 = served in, were shot down over, captured in or killed in Vietnam! If = there was...

According to a story in the Houston Chronicle, NASA has a plan for getting photo coverage of night shuttle launches. "The fix involves flying two modified B-57 high-altitude airplanes on either side of the shuttle, filming its liftoff and the first two minutes of flight, said NASA imaging expert...

US attorney general's Patriot tour: the specter of a police state By Bill Vann 13 September 2003 The Bush administration has seized upon the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks as an opportunity to push for a further expansion of the police-state powers it has assumed in the name of...

C-130 Unit Completes Two Year Deployment (EXCERPT) PRESS RELEASE -- Secretary of the Air Force, Directorate of Public Affairs Release No. 0930032 Sep 30, 2003 C-130 Unit Completes Two Year Deployment DYESS AIR FORCE BASE, TEXAS - After nearly two years of supporting

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Some time ago I noted that http://www.aia.af.mil/homepages/ho/70s-2.cfm says, The 6300th Support Squadron (later redesignated 6300th Aerospace Support Squadron) was activated at Ko Kha, Thailand, on 1 July 1971 to support Cobra Talon. and asked, inter alia, what Cobra Talon is/was. Some possible...

This crazy incident involved an F6F target drone which went haywire back in 1956. After taking off from Pt. Mugu on the California coast the Hellcat's radio control manfunctioned and it headed inland. F-89s fired a couple hundred 2.75 inch rockets at it with no effect. On the drone, that is. They...

I put together a video in support of our troops. It was compiled from images and video from television and the internet. Title: "Support Our Troops" http://www.dave911.com/ (The streams and the downloads are on the front page) It looks a LOT better at the higher bit rates. Dave

Air Force Academy Review Panel Releases Report (EXCERPT) PRESS ADVISORY from the United States Department of Defense No. 115-03 PRESS ADVISORY Sep 18, 2003 Sep 18, 2003 The independent panel reviewing sexual misconduct allegations at the U.S. Air Force Academy will release its final report...

Check out this cool site: http://home.wxs.nl/~erboblex/ehvb.htm -- Regards, Spirit. Eric van den Bosch (from inside the righthand pattern of RWY-23)

In the book "Mig-Pilot" The ghost author writes that Mig's were Scrambled to intercept Sr-71's that flew just outside of Soviet Airspace in the mid 1970's. The Blackbird's allegedly would "scoop up to altitudes that the Mig-25's couldn't reach or dash off at speeds the Mig-25's couldn't match"...

When the troops of the 9th armored division reached the bridge at Remaagen on March 7th they stopped undecided what to do. General William Hoge saw the bridge standing aand ordered it to be taken with the East end of the bridge secured. Lt. Karl Timmermann led the charge takig the bridge and...

My article in Hindustan Times on India-USA relations Published in Hindustan Times, Wednesday, 17 March 2004, edit page http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_621696,00120002.htm America's Two Timing by Ravi Visvesvaraya Prasad

Navy pilot's fate now looks grim (EXCERPT) , By Rowan Scarborough THE WASHINGTON TIMES A secret Pentagon report states that once-promising leads in the hunt for Capt. Michael Scott Speicher in Iraq have turned up no evidence of his whereabouts, contradicting public official comments that...

I rented The Great Santini the other night and was surprised to find out that the Marines had fighter pilots. I thought the only USAF and Navy had the fighter pilots.

How many B-2's are currently inservice and how many more are in the production pipe, if any? Harley

Just arrived in the post this morning - here in the UK. Contents list :- Debrief Ya Hossein Tazarve 'Team PC-7' 'Saudi Hawks' Display Team New Report

This from the Aero-News Propwash email newsletter this morning: *********************************************** USAF Names First Female To Command Combat Squadron And You'll Never Guess... The 354th Fighter Squadron, based at Arizona's Davis-Monthan AFB, has a new commander: Lt. Col. Martha...

I am going to outline a real situation that occurred during WW II. I would like to hear opinions and solutions as to how the situation should be handled. I will give the real solution that was imposed during the war after a week or so when many opinions have been offered. There was a large...