Navy Grounds 104 Hornets To Inspect For Airframe Cracking As a result of an emerging safety of flight issue with legacy Boeing F/A-18A-D Hornets, the Navy is grounding 104 of the aircraft after inspections revealed that cracking has occurred earlier than predicted in some airframes, according to...

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Does anybody here know this guy? Here is the link and first paragraph: http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=16143 PENSACOLA, Fla. (NNS) -- The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron pilot who safely ejected from his F/A-18 Hornet near Perdido Key in the Gulf of Mexico Dec. 1 has...

http://www.alfredlilienthal.com/greaterisrael.htm Greater Israel -- What Does It Really Mean? It is the only answer to what has been published by the responsible persons of Israel about the necessity that Israel should expand to comprise the beds of the Tigris and Euphrates, the Sinai Peninsula...

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Hello All -- You are invited to drop by Zeno's Warbird Video Drive-In (www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com) and catch our End of Summer September Triple Feature of World War II aviation films for free online video viewing. * This month "At the Matinee," we're featuring the return of an all...

From what I remember and what I can read they are no longer issued and the NFO came out in 1968. Yet I see a website where someone claiming to be a commander and being commissioned in 82 wearing A/O wings on his uniform. In my limited 16 year career (med disch not retired) I never once seen...

I heard on the radio that the BRAC 2005 list was going to be released sometime this week. Anyone got a link? Rumor has it that Los Angeles Air Force Base (Station?) is on the list. It is mainly a contract administration office, no aircraft located there. Haven't heard anything about Naval bases...

Got a question! Did Great Britain actually catapult Hurricane fighters from cargo ships to protect convoys from German Folkwulf bombers? If so, did the Hurricane pilot then ditch or bail out after the fight? And what percentage of Hurricane pilots ever made it back, especially on the Murmansk...

Aviation art possibly of interest to this group Roy Grinnell's "Skyhawk Tribute" 25" x 32" Personally signed by 23 renowned A-4 drivers, limited to 850 prints. Retail $250.00 , offered for $100 Among the signatories a Everett Alverez, 1st and longest held US POW in Vietnam

I was wondeirng, given the NZ government having problems with Skyhawks, what made them so put off about them? I know they are older, but the Israelis really modified theirs and they seemed OK with precision weapons. Can the A-4 Skyhawk mount Harpoon missiles? If not I would guess that Penguin or...

Staged Shootings at Virginia Tech: To bring in New-Anti-Gun-Laws !!! To Disarm and Conquer America !!! The News Media:

To All USMC Reservists from HQ, USMC: All Marine Corps reservists are officially ordered to keep the Commanding Officer, USMCRSC notified of any current and change of: residential/mailing address marital status number of financially dependant family members civilian employment status, name...

Hi all, I have just updated my M1 Garand sites on the net. These are the ORIGINAL US Ordnance files on the M1 Rifle, better known as the M1 Garand. This update is for all the newbies, you older guys should check it out also. Here are the site addresses. http://www.users.fast.net/~eclancy On the...

Just wondering how come post-WW2 carrierborne torpedo planes such as Firebrand, AM Mauler, Wyvern were all single-seaters. Only a few years ago during the WW2, carrierborne torpedo planes required three crews - pilot, bomber/navigator & radioman/gunner - without exception. What brought this change?

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Arsenal Carl O Schuster. Vietnam. Jun 2007. Vol. 20, Iss. 1; pg. 19-EOA No one saw the two low-flying North Vietnamese MiG-17 fighters approaching the large force of U.S. Navy and Air Force aircraft, which was zeroing in on taking out the North's Than Hoa Bridge on April 3, 1965. Essentially an...

Neoconservatives have taken over the Executive Branch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd4ifGAjr94&feature=PlayList&p=09B551E5E235B48C&index=0&playnext=1 Here is a tiny URL for it: http://tinyurl.com/4ydxjw ----------------------------------------------

Citizen stuns congresswoman: "Why should we divide Iraq for israel?" http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/4275 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHculIAacPQ Thom Hartmann's Hypocrisy for Israel Part 2: http://neoconzionistthreat.blogspot.com/2007/10/thom-hartmanns-hypocrisy-for-israel_21.html

The Web site for the Society of US Naval Flight Surgeons lists the dual designators from the past. Don't know how current or complete it is but check it out for a familiar name. http://www.aerospacemed.org/dual.htm J. Galla, MD