Has there been a good discussion of current US aviation military air to air training. In ref to this year's big exercise with India where the press is reporting that the USAF's best F-15Cs got their butt whipped by India's Su-27. -- The US Air Force got a "wake-up call" in air-to-air training...

Looks like one of the thunderbirds crashed today....pilot ejected.....

Hello, In view of the 9/11 attacks, with some fighters being launched unarmed for want of time, I have been wondering what are the procedures to be followed before launching fighters onto a mission--I am not talking about authorizations etc., but things like fueling them (or are they kept...

The news media are reporting that the recently deceased actor Charles Bronsen was a B29 tailgunner during WW2. I can't ever recall reading anything about him on various sites dealing with celebrities who served during WW2. Anybody know if this is true or just Hollywood hype? John

Forgive me if this has been answered before, but does anyone know the name of the cargo plane featured in "Flying Tigers" and any info on it's origin and fate? It seems as though it was Italian and a one-off unit, but that's something of a WAG. Thanks, John

A question has come up on anoouhter thread: Did airbases during W.W.I.I have mini-factories near-by able to assemble airplanes from a combination of recylced parts, mini-milled machine parts (ferrous parts and aluminium parts, but not organic parts), and new spare parts? I have seen several...

The Most Exploited Generation Posted by Chris Dominguez The way the mandarins of Warfare State never tire of their odes to World War II, you'd almost think they were sorry it ever ended. Their love of the "Good War" makes perfect sense, though; the period of the war was a Statist's dream come...

Pilots who bravely murder from 10,000 feet are even bigger cowards than the kevlar-encased army losers. http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AFGHAN_ATTACK?SITE=NVLAS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT Your tax dollars at work.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/18/eveningnews/main589380.shtml Wounded Troops Denied Benefits? WASHINGTON, Dec. 18, 2003 Wounded GI Benefits

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/12/20/MNGBL3RJP01.DTL There's not enough money to care for wounded soldiers, but enough for fedgov waste (and billions in aid for Israel). Which sucker will be the last one to die for nothing in...

Scared, Trigger-Happy Young Males by Doug Casey The war in Iraq is going to fail, utterly and disastrously. There are many reasons for that, but one more lies in the prevailing psychological mindset of the U.S. military. I'm not referring so much to the young grunts, who are driven mostly by a...

Is Bush Doomed? by Paul Craig Roberts Fear must be coursing through President Bush's veins as he realizes the Iraqi trap in which the neocons have placed him. Bush is caught between an Iraqi civil war and a wider insurgency. Desperate to extricate himself from the weekly carnage well before...

Violence against those who invade a foreign country or someone else's home is acceptable and even desired. Can you imagine losing an arm or leg or getting raped in a meaningless war? The dummies going to Iraq are evil suckers. They use violence against civilians in Iraq when, if they were brave,...

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 17:37:05 +0000 (UTC), Steven James Forsberg wrote: It is an interesting question. While I don't think there is a "conspiracy" by the administration to prevent such media coverage, the US media does indeed self-censor itself to a large extent. The...

On Mon, 17 May 2004 10:33:50 -0400, "Jeff" wrote: OH-58A/C Kiowa, OH-58D Kiowa (slick, like in "Firebirds"), AHIP, AH-58D, OH-58D(i) Kiowa Warrior, OH-58D(R) Kiowa Warrior, then after all OH-58A/C/D's were upgraded to (i) or (R), the (i)'s went back to...

On Mon, 17 May 2004 00:10:37 -0400, "Kevin Brooks" wrote: Not in units but I hear the Arizona desert has many, many Loach frames/fuselages laying in the desert just waiting to be overhauled/rebuilt.

On Thu, 13 May 2004 03:22:27 GMT, R. David Steele /OMEGA wrote: Does anyone know much about the MH-6J Little Bird? It seems to be a very low cost (about a 10th of what an Apache costs) helicopter. Given our problems in Iraq, we need an affordable airframe that we...

Any of you know of any ATC, GCI, or any other aviation-type control center or ABCC in SEA with the callsigns Joker or Jack, i.e. what service, where located, etc. This would have been circa 1970-72. TIA John Hairell )

In article , CFA3 writes My guess, (taken for what it's worth), is that we could refurbish and convert those 10's at something of the order of 1/3 the cost of new 767's. Not to mention the commonality issue that would be...

In article , Cub Driver writes It's a great PR coup for Boeing! Some people consider it a subsidy because it allows Boeing to keep the 767 line running, and that without the deal they might have to close it. -- John