It was the 4th of June 1944. We had been hitting targets on, around and behind the Normandy beaches. On that morning we lost one plane on take off. It crashed and burned. The entire 4,000 pound bomb load exploded setting off the full fuel tanks and all the MG ammo in the belts. The miraculous thig...

http://home.att.net/~dannysoar2/Whirlygig.htm An interesting looking 'thing' (I found this posted on sci.space.history) Cheers, Richard

One B-52, possibly the G version. Painted green camo, foreground. Two Tu-95 Bear Bombers (Recon versions?) Ones with 4 turboprop engines and silver and white paint. Looks like Bear G or Hs to me. One An-124 Transport (In back, painted white in blue trim. 4 engines.)

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I'm Hit!, I'm Hit! Bob slammed back his copilots seat and threw his hands over his face."I'm hit! I'm hit!" he shouted. I whirled around to see Bob over my right shoulder from my position in the nose. Bob was writhing in pain holding his head. Then Paul came on the intercom, "There's no blood,...

Air Force Print News for Feb. 5, 2004 What a grind (Stand-alone photo) http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123006917 Silently surveying surroundings http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123006910

Air Force Print News for Feb. 6, 2004 Test uniforms hit the streets http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123006932 Doors open for active duty to join Air Force Reserve http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123006930

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I was in Tucson over the holidays. At the AFB there (Davis-Monthan), they keep a lot of aircraft in storage. At the south end of the base, several recent arrivals were parked near the fence. For some reason, the "U.S. Air Force" markings on the side had been torn up. Does anyone have any idea...

I just wanted to let you all know that the Third Reich Factbook has changed its name to the Axis History Factbook and moved to http://www.axishistory.com The focus is still the same, the Axis nations of the Second World War. btw. Don't forget to visit the forum at...

Oelewapper wrote: The **** goes on,... as Tony Blair and his defence secretary keep sinking deeper away in it, and as their relentless lies are being constantly exposed and inquired upon. I am not so sure. Look at Bush Jr. I strongly suspect that this was planned a long time ago by his...

nobody wrote in message ... Both Bliar and Bush deserve to be tried for war crimes. Their invasion of Iraq was just as legal as Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, or Argentina's invasion of the Falklands. Nope. I'm no Bush apologist, but this...

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...

http://www.vfgp.de/fotoarchiv/komp02.jpg The Peiltochterkompass (Polar Slave Compass) that was connected to the Meisterkompass (Master Compass) before the German Thule/Vril disc craft took off. I believe this is the same 1943 unit mistakenly sold as scrap from Sandia but cannot read the Gerat or...

Anyone know anything about this piece of test equipment? I have one in good working condition and would like to know what it is used for and if it still has a usefull value. Any help would be apreciated. CONRAC CORP COMPUTER TEST SET P/ N 3052900 S/ N 0006. TEST SET,COMPUTER Manf: INTERSTATE...

The facts: I have approx. 1,230 posts logged in the Google archive. Of these only 804 are displayed. Chad claims the MAJORITY of my posts are German-related. Here is an accurate hand-counted tally for 600 posts (there was no need to go to the full 804 because you will see why in the...

Subj: Patrick AFB Area Log - Saturday 7 Feb 2004 GATOR 81: F/A-18C, Atlanta NAS VMFA-142 "Flying Gators" Sqdn. 8:15am: Departs to Atlanta NAS (Dobbins). CG 6016: HH-60J Jayhawk Helo, CGAS-Clearwater FL 8:48am: On SAR mission east of Patrick AFB. 9:20am: RTBs Clearwater.

MARKET GARDEN ALL OVER AGAIN? WHAT THE HELL? The disastrous operation Market Garden was over. The losses were considerable as was our sense of defeat in an operation that promised to shorten the war. Well you can't win 'em all. Upward and onward. On the 6th of October 1944 weeks after Market...

Back in the early days preparing for going to the Moon NASA invited some Navaho Nation natives to see the preparations. One of the Navaho Chiefs asked if they could send a plaque to the Moon. Officials though about this for a time and then said it would be okay if they provided two plaques, one...

Sorry Tarver, Art and other. I assisted yesterday to the TLP at Florennes AFB (Belgium) where a couple of F-15E of the 492nd FS Madhatters was escort during the wenesday mission by 2 Mirage 2000C of the squadron 01-012 'Picardie'. here b4 the take off...