Michael says Particualrly interesting is that he said that all US battle groups in Mediterranean were under permanent targeting from our submarines and surface ships with at least with 30 missiles with 2 min readiness at the normal distance 300km at any given moment. He said that according to...

Subject: Photos of flying Blériot XI From: "Daniel Karlsson" Date: 1/17/04 5:51 AM Pacific Standard Time ee photos of one of the world's oldest original flying machines, a 1909-type Blériot XI flown by Mikael Carlsson: Daniel K Aviation...

http://www.strategypage.com/gallery/default.asp?target=f18-flyby.htm Anyone have the story on this one? Kinda cool... -John *You are nothing until you have flown a Douglas, Lockheed, Grumman or North American*

YO-3A QUIET STAR BUILT BY LOCKHEED AND SAW SERVICE IN VIETNAM HAS ITS OWN WEB PAGE WWW.YO-3A.COM. WE ARE PLANNNG A REUNION FOR SPRING 2004. WE ARE ALSO LOOKING FOR VIETNAM ERA FILM OF YO-3A. CONTACT KURT

I would like to ask for help identifying various Singapore photos taken when I was an Air Radar Fitter working on Shackletons in about 1960 at RAF Changi. They can be seen on my website at http://www.maribelecosystems.com It has a section all about the 5 years I spent in the "mob" I am sure a lot...

Was there ever such a thing as a twinned-Hurricane? My work nemesis says he bets that none of you guys have ever heard of it before. He showed me two grainy photos of this plane and it looks indeed very strange. Why would the Tommys want to twin a Hurricane fighter? Billy told me about the...

YO-3A QUIET STAR BUILT BY LOCKHEED AND SAW SERVICE IN VIETNAM HAS ITS OWN WEB PAGE WWW.YO-3A.COM. WE ARE PLANNNG A REUNION FOR SPRING 2004. WE ARE ALSO LOOKING FOR VIETNAM ERA FILM OF YO-3A. CONTACT KURT

On an earlier thread, some despicable mysogynist wondered whether a female suicide bomber got the 72 virgins issued to martyrs in heaven, which led some other lowlife to speculate that instead she might be multiplied into the 72 virgins. Well, further to those thoughts, here's a note from this...

65 years ago today. It is 1944 and General Eisenhower takes command in London of the Allied invasion force during WW II It is the beginning of the end for Germany. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website...

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040117/ap_on_re_eu/britain_wwii_photos

http://www.pogo.org/p/defense/do-000812-f22.htm Rob

"Michael Petukhov" wrote in message ... But Mikhailichenko dismissed any suggestion of a return to the Cold War contest which Soviet Union led until the United States put men on the moon in 1969. He said the Russian...

Hello all, Seems as though I heard about the opportunity for military personnel to get their IFR ticket training (and beyond; e.g. multi-engine, complex, etc) paid for if they have their private license. I don't mean moving to a pilot's MOS, just having the military pay for the training, as with...

Could I interest you in an island in the middle of a nice lake ? one that is almost completely dried up? Yes and apparently the dust from the lake is rather toxic. Ron Pilot/Wildland Firefighter

From: JL Grasso Date: 1/17/2004 2:50 PM Central Standard Time Message-id: On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 18:55:11 -0800, "Tarver Engineering" wrote: Total Air Temperature is the total of several probes at the inlet of...

Air Force Print News for January 16, 2004 Airmen restoring old mosque http://www.af.mil/stories/story.asp?storyID=123006394 Pilot helps boy breathe easier http://www.af.mil/stories/story.asp?storyID=123006396

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:22:16 -0800, Hobo wrote: If stealth makes long distance RF AAMs ineffective, and laser blinding makes IR AAMs ineffective, wouldn't we back to the gunfights of WW1? If the aircraft are stealthy, how do they find each other for the dogfight?

We all know that the X-35 won the JSF contest which is now in the strategic development phase as the F-35. At the time the competition winner was announced (LM) I wondered why Boeing would scrap their whole concept rather than push forward with it. For various political reasons Boeing could have...

My aviation co-worker claims that the Wright brothers had a secret name for their Flyer- the Bullam. He claims that the brothers had nicknames for themselves when they were growing up. Apparently Wilbur was Ullam and Orville was Bubbo or Bubs. Bullam comes from this combination of childhood...

Second wing activated at Ramstein Air Base (EXCERPT) , By Marni McEntee, Stars and Stripes European edition, Friday, January 16, 2004 RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany — In a rare occurrence in the Air Force, one wing became two at Ramstein as the new 435th Air Base Wing was activated and a new...