Anybody know what the max trap of a Spad was? Don't know much about this bird but I walk past one every day. Seems like it would've been a good airplane. -MB

04 Apr 2006 - Today’s Military, Veteran, War and National Security News You can also receive this resource listing that is published daily via email by The American War Library. To subscribe go to the Library’s phone number dot com (13105320634.com -or- ourphonenumber.com). Select the ’Daily...

Looks like the need for more than single seat fighters is becoming an issue again. From the April Seapower: http://www.navyleague.org/sea_power/apr_04_16.php "Boeing's Ted Herman, business development manager for the F-18 program, told Sea Power the Super Hornet tanker helps "extend the legs" of...

I just sent this to Fox News: Elenor Clift was just interviewed on Fox News Channel (by Laurie Due) concerning the ransom that may have been paid for the Italian journalist’s release by the Italian government. At the very end of the interview, Clift contended that a “trigger happy American...

Posted on Sun, Mar. 14, 2004 San Jose Mercury News Many veterans reject Bush LONG DEPLOYMENTS, BENEFIT CUTS ERODE SUPPORT FOR PRESIDENT By William Douglas Knight Ridder WASHINGTON - When the Bush campaign asked James McKinnon to co-chair its

How many on this newsgroup ever made paddles passes to aircraft carrier landings? How many to straight decks and how many to angled decks? On which carriers did you make them? How many in this newsgroup even know what paddles passes were? Let us hear from all you really old, formerly...

Coalition Air Warfare in the Korean War, 1950-1953 online at https://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/Publications/fulltext/Korea_Coalition_Warfare.pdf

Over a few beers today with a former Marine and sailor from the Fifties, "NAS Oakland" was mentioned. The Marine recalled it was in the old section of what is now Oakland Internatinal Airport. One of the surviving buildings may still have Navy wings on it. Has anyone else heard of NAS OAKLAND?

Hello folks, I just saw this link on yahoo news, I didn't see anything about it on www.news.navy.mil yet, probably soon. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050110/ap_on_re_as/tsunami_helicopter_crash All the story says is an SH-60 with 10 onboard crashed in Indonesia, near Banda...

Why did not the US turn the F14 into QF14 drones rather than just cut them up? How many F14's are left in the bone yard? I see there are plans for QF-16's when the F4 supply runs low. bob

elmshoot- I know the Traning command put some more restrictions on us like no Flaps during the fight, so it was far game to throw them out in the fleet? BRBR Also I remember that NATOPS prohibited aero braking after landing but when I got to VC-12 OMARS it was considered normal to Aero...

http://www.washtimes.com/books/20041114-013756-5796r.htm Vietnam: The war that will not end Published November 14, 2004 Much more uplifting is Two Souls Indivisible: The Friendship That Saved Two POWs in Vietnam by James S. Hirsch (Houghton Mifflin, ISBN:0618273484 ) Mr. Hirsch is a skilled...

And if this occurred while Clinton was President, he would have been overjoyed that the press had not discovered his girlfriend(s) on Air Force One.

Released material located: http://www.nsa.gov/docs/efoia/released/liberty.html NSA states the only transmissions recorded were from 1429 to 1528. MW ------------------------------------- "As soon as movement begins, so does the fog of war" - Edward N. Luttwak

Navy squadron deploys to Iwakuni http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-721979.php {EXCERPT} Marine Corps Times (subscription) - 4 hours ago YAMAGUCHI, Japan (Kyodo) A Navy squadron has been deployed to Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, since last year as part of a plan to...

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Blue Angels' practice draws eyes to skies http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050923/LOCAL/209230320/1078/news {EXCERPT} Gainesville Sun, FL - 9 hours ago Other performers include two World War II-era bombers, a B-25 sponsored by the Disabled American Veterans, and the Memphis...

Hi All - My Grandfather flew this 3-seat Torpedo bomber in the late 20's / early 30's. His logbooks have signitures by Lt. Halsey and Lt. Waldron! T4M's remainded in service into the early 40's. Does anyone know of an intact T4M, or parts, or plans? The NavAir Museum in Pensacola has only a...

DEDICATED TO ALL WHO FLEW BEHIND ROUND ENGINES We gotta get rid of those turbines, they're ruining aviation and our hearing... A turbine is too simple minded, it has no mystery. The air travels through it in a straight line and doesn't pick up any of the pungent fragrance of engine oil or pilot...

I was just wondering if any buddy stores carried internal fuel,or if all the internal space was taken up by the drogue, hose and reel, pump, etc. I have conflicting sources, so hopefully those here with personal experience can give me the straight skinny. If you can mention the particular...