i know US jet is much better. how many of best russian jets could one US jet take on at once? i'll bet the best US jet can shoot down at least 5 of russia's best jets before going down.

A week ago, there was a discussion of the altitudes from which B-26s bombed the beaches on D-Day. I talked today with a friend who flew one of those B-26s at Utah Beach. He said they bombed from 1,100 feet. He didn't know what altitudes were used at Omaha. He added that he saw landing craft...

Welcome back, George, and best wishes for a speeedy recovery. vince norris

This Friday evening (Jan. 2), on the History Channel at 9 pm, there will be a program about the B-26. vince norris

While at the Wright Memorial earlier this week, I picked up a NASA pamphlet entitled _Celebrating a Century of Flight_. On page 13 there's a picture of Jackie Cochran with a caption quoting her as saying, about the WASPS, "We landed planes like the Hurricane and the Spitfire in fields where I...

Dear NG, where can I find a F16 or similar military aircraft for a commercial photoshoot? (Arizona) Vlens

Good stuff,,DEFINEITELY BOOKMARKED THAT ONE,, Does any one know of a Marine equivelent?? Other than navsource http://www.navsource.org/ And the various photo archive sites that have various randon shoots of ships? ~Voigt Robert Lundin wrote in message...

News Release -------------- -------------- Alastair Scott Just the other day I came across this great guy, Alastair Scott who trained as a photographer before hitching around the world in a kilt for 5 years. Since then he's cycled 5,000 miles behind the iron curtain toured Japan, Russia and Baffin...

Photos from this past weekend's show at Nellis AFB including some of the F/A-22 & F-35 JSF http://axis1.bizland.com/airshow/ Cheers, -Larry

Expensive isn't it? At the peak of the Viet-Nam war the cost was $90 billion per year. That was just to blow stuff up. Now thats really expensive. One of our major political parties wants to pass a health care bill that starts at an estimasted $400 billion per year. And you know how estimates...

If so it shioyld be changed to rec.politics. This is suppose to be about aviation, not politics. If it's to survive it needs a monitor to scan out tyhe non-aviation subjects. If I want to read about politics I'll go to another newsdroup or watch the news or read the paper. Walt -----= Posted...

I've been following the thread on the U-234 and was most intetested in the statement that there was a Me262 on board. Can anyone provide any substantial evidence of this, other than the statement that there was one on board? And if there was one on board what happened to it? I would assume that if...

Michael Moore has done it again. He knows better how to dupe fools if any charlatan ever did. He realizes the two digit IQ liberals are so easy to seduce that he can make phony movies they will actually pay to see. Of course his movies only need to feed into their prejudices! That's how he makes...

Kerry had a total of four months experience commanding a patrol boat as part of the brown water navy in Vietnam thirty years ago. Bush has over two and a half years (and counting) experience commanding the most lethal military force ever seen in the history of man! So who actually has the most...

"...The total cost of LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP.'s Joint Strike Fighter program to develop a new tactical fighter will rise by $45 billion, or 22.6%, to $245 billion, the Pentagon said. In a regular report to Congress on major weapons programs, the U.S. Defense Department said the sharp rise in costs...

Which country first practised strategic bombing? WDA end

44,000 ft altitude means only about 1/7 of the atmospheric pressure at sea level. So it's hard to believe a person could maintain consciousness without oxygen pressure equipment to get to 49,500 feet. With half the atmosphere below 18,000 feet the U. S. military requires oxygen masks above 15,000...

Let's see, John Kerry's qualifications as wartime Commander-In -Chief are that he spent four months as officer-in-charge of a patrol boat during the Vietnam War over thirty years ago. After returning early from Vietnam Kerry backstabbed his shipmates still in Vietnam by calling them war...

"~ NADER 04 ~" wrote in message ... DUMPBUSH? Don't Try It on a Plate That was the gayest article I've ever read. Wouldn't just using a bumper sticker make more sense anyway? ...

....we were hanging in lake st. clair yesterday (located a few miles northeast of detroit and a few miles from selfridge ANG). during the course of the day there were several overhead passes by F16s and an occasional C130 approaching the base. then i looked directly above and saw the...