If you visit the following URL you'll see a video: http://www.airspacemag.com/asm/mag/supp/fm00/Blues.html the last portion of which shows what appears to be a Blue Angels F-18 roll only to reveal that, in fact, it was 2 planes flying so close, the plane in the background was completely obscured by...

A while back I posted a story about Bob, bombardier of a B-25 that ditched on the way back to Corsica after a mission. Bob saved the lives of both the pilot, who was injured in the cockpit, and the tail gunner, who was trapped in the aft compartment. Well, Bob Denbo, I learn, has passed on, age...

Bob's Story Paul, Bob and I were in a repple depple in the English midlands (Hanley, Stoke on Trent) waiting to join the 344th as a replacement crew. We all roomed together as pilots, copilots and bombardiers did.. One evening I entered the room to find Bob sobbing and shaking, wracked with tears...

Bob's Story Paul, Bob and I were in a repple depple in the English midlands (Hanley, Stoke on Trent) waiting to join the 344th as a replacement crew. We all roomed together as pilots, copilots and bombardiers did.. One evening I entered the room to find Bob sobbing and shaking, wracked with tears...

Bob's Story Paul, Bob and I were in a repple depple in the English midlands (Hanley, Stoke on Trent) waiting to join the 344th as a replacement crew. We all roomed together as pilots, copilots and bombardiers did.. One evening I entered the room to find Bob sobbing and shaking, wracked with tears...

I just now learned that then-Major Charles Sweeney, the pilot of Bockscar on the Nagasaki mission, died in Boston last Thursday at the age of 84. According to an obituary this morning in the Aero-News email newsletter: A staunch defender of the atomic missions, Sweeney told Quincy (MA) Patriot...

BOEING CO. has won a $188 million contract to modify three C-130H2 aircraft into a side-firing AC-130U gunship, the Air Force said on Monday. The Air Force said work on the contract would be completed by September 2006. The AC-130U "Spooky" gunship provides close air support, air interdiction and...

BOEING CO. won a $241.8 million contract to continue work on the ballistic missile-hunting Airborne Laser, a modified 747, the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency said on Monday. The contract, which runs through June 30, 2005, modifies an earlier agreement to account for cost adjustments to the...

Is that plane the 707 prototype or the KC-135A prototype? I understand the 707 is wider than the -135A (in order to match the DC-8) and has other differences in structure. Also, anyone know why Boeing gave it the same model number as the B-367, which was a completely different airframe?

http://www.king5.com/business/stories/NW_021704BUBboeingmmaJK.1323164.html The MMA is a new version of the Renton, Wash. built 737. If the Navy approves, this new 737 would be able to drop bombs, torpedoes, and missiles. The bombs will be carried on wing hardpoints rather than in a bomb bay? If...

Can anybody here tall me what the standard rate of turn is in a 757? Is it the same as small palnes, i.ei, is it universal at 360 degrees in 2 minutes? I've got someone telling me the Boeing 757 that hit the Pentagon did some impossible turn before flying into the building, and it sounds like a...

The total termination charge for the program, an Air Force lease of 20 aircraft and purchase of an additional 80, "could reach approximately $310 million by March 31, 2004," the company said in its 10-K filing with the SEC. Last month, Boeing said it would have to slow down work on the...

The news today about Boeing building the 7E7 and giving the wing to Japan to build sounds like it was taken directly out of the text of Micheal Crichton's book Airframe, where some unscrupulous executives at an ailing aircraft manufacturer give away closely guarded secrets to turn a quick profit at...

http://www.boeing.com/phantom/att.html Rob

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/stories.nsf/Business/810879C56DA8BF2686256E0C00194866?OpenDocument&Headline=Boeing+lands+two+fighter+contracts More Super Hornets and the EA-18G Growler go-ahead... Rob

" ".......... this is a case of where's there's a smell of corruption and special treatment for one company. In terms of its scale, it's become virtual kryptonite for anyone associated with the tanker deal." The inspector general is already investigating several aspects of the tanker deal,...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2078-2004May4.html The report is expected to conclude that the current tanker fleet needs to be modernized and that it would be too expensive to simply put new engines in the 40-year-old airframes, according to sources familiar with the report....

http://www.kathryncramer.com/wblog/ --- Using the net to track down mercenary fighters in Iraq Kathryn Cramer has been posting a lot of really good, solid investigative material about the ongoign use of mercenrary fighters in Iraq, googling the tail-numbers of aircraft and generally...

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/8971217.htm?1c Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas, said confidence in Boeing to do the Navy program, which some analysts thought would go to Lockheed-Martin, could result in congressional support for other programs. -HJC

Boeing F/A-22 Assembly http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2001757243_boeing03.html