Does anyone have any links or info on the Lockheed effort back in the 70s for competition with the YF-16 and YF-17? It was a derivative of the F-104 but I don't know what happened to the program or even if a mock up was built.

Hi, I've been browsing the newsgroup archives for the last month and haven't found a clear answer to this question. I find alot of the subject topics here tend to go off on to talks about politics. It seems alot of importance is put into stealth for aircraft these days, just wondering who is...

Has anybody seen any photos of the He-111A's flown by the Chinese Air Force which obtained six in 36? Al

There has been a bit of a furore over here concerning the new US requirement to airlines to supply air marshals when requested. The concern is mainly over the possible puncture of a pressure cabin. What do readers think is the result of decompression via a bullet hole? Mike -- M.J.Powell

My young nephew is convinced that the F-14 can land vertically, as in drop straight down and land. As far as I can tell, that just ain't so. From the right perspective, can it ever appear that an F-14 is 'hovering' and 'dropping down' onto a carrier deck? (I thought F-14 carrier landings would...

Are thoseC-130 still retained somwhere that libya purchased some years back and held by the US,or sold off.

hi i'm brojack and i'm a racist. i thought i should come out of the closet for all of those who love me so much.

I'm not talking about factoring in built-in air to ground capability, I'm talking about strictly air to air and escort.

Has there ever been any research into the top scoring individual aircraft (not type) of any era? Presume it would be WWII. AL

About 15 years ago I saw a RAAF F/A 18 perform at Ohakea in New Zealand. After takeoff it flew out to sea. It returned from behind a hangar travelling slowly down the runway on its tail. The hangar obscured our view of the transition. It continued down the runway at perhaps 30 mph and 50 metres...

http://ipmslondon.tripod.com/referencearticles/id28.html Rob

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 17:37:05 +0000 (UTC), Steven James Forsberg wrote: It is an interesting question. While I don't think there is a "conspiracy" by the administration to prevent such media coverage, the US media does indeed self-censor itself to a large extent. The...

devil wrote in message ... On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 16:39:39 +0100, Jeroen Wenting wrote: To put it in contrast: NOT using the nukes to end WW2 would have cost an estimated 500.000 US dead and wounded and several...

Postwar 1948 Parca missile based on German WW2 F-25/55 designs: http://l.bailleul.free.fr/autresarmesV/parca.jpg Rob

I have a problem with my DVD player and one particular disc which yields only (or most readily, at least) to use of the GOTO button. The player is a CyberHome CH-DVD 400, bought a while back from WHS. The disc is Channel 4's "The Dambusters", about some current Royal Air Force personnel trying to...

I've Googled this, but haven't been able to narrow it down enough yet to get a workable number of finds, so I'll ask he have Russian/Sovbloc pilots flown combat missions, openly or otherwise, for their client/customer states in other conflicts since Korea? Thanks. David

At the risk of boring everyone to distraction I have a couple of new points to make. I've been watching this evening the repeat Tx on Ch4 of the programme where they took an RAF crew and trained them on a simulator to repeat the Dams' raid. As part of their training they were taken to Canada and...

The Air Force doesn't have enough planes to fly Stryker Force around the world when it needs to go someplace? Since when did the Air Force have a shortage of planes?

Female pilot killed in action (EXCERPT) (Filed: 06/01/2004) The first female American pilot to be killed in the Iraq conflict was being mourned yesterday after her helicopter was brought down by a missile. Capt Kimberly Hampton, 27, died after her OH-58 Kiowa helicopter went down under fire from...

Air Force Print News for Jan. 5, 2004 Kirkuk airmen provide relief supplies http://www.af.mil/stories/story.asp?storyID=123006314 Air Force convoys end in Iraq http://www.af.mil/stories/story.asp?storyID=123006312