C-130 Unit Completes Two Year Deployment (EXCERPT) PRESS RELEASE -- Secretary of the Air Force, Directorate of Public Affairs Release No. 0930032 Sep 30, 2003 C-130 Unit Completes Two Year Deployment DYESS AIR FORCE BASE, TEXAS - After nearly two years of supporting

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from http://www.washtimes.com/national/inring.htm Buy Pakistani? The Pentagon is about to waive "buy American" provisions of U.S. law and allow Pakistan to provide the goatskin leather used in the distinctive U.S. aviator bomber jackets. The Defense Department has notified a U.S. leather tanner...

I remember during the war in England there was a joke that went around. The best time and place to tell it was in an English pub with lots of RAF around. The joke went like this: Eveything in England is smaller. The cars are smaller. The trains are smaller. The rooms are smaller The houses are...

On my local news programme last week they spoke of three of them flying into Heathrow. When is that date and I wonder if they'll do a vic flypast first before landing ? Got my stereo camera and I'm ready! Richard.

This brings back the memories of a USAF Captain on exchange duty with VAH-5 41 years ago. He had maybe 4,000 hours multi-engine including the RB-66. After A-3 plane commander training in the RAG/VAH-3, he reported aboard VAH-5 preparing for the 1962 Forrestal Med cruise. He completed FCLP's with...

Hello all: DARPA's working on a Space Plane that could deliver a 2000lb payload to 2500nm, or put a smaller payload into orbit. See: http://aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_awst_story.jsp?id=news/09223top.xml Many low-cost space launch concepts have been proposed over the years. How practical...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40516-2003Sep20.html Awww, too bad. The two Gustav Weisskopf replicas flew easily enough, proving that the Wrights were dead wrong when they claimed the GW No.21 CANNOT FLY... just look at the design. Time to admit the real first to fly sustained...

Dear Forum members, I wonder if anyone can help me with information on a particular ejection, especially the pilot. I believe that the information given below is correct. Harry Veland F-8A Crusader VF-32 BuNo 142414

Tim Walters wrote: Hello, I've just read in one of the French ngs that the French consider Concorde to have been the product of Gallic genius, with a small contribution from the Brits. Does anyone here happen to know how much (in terms of ideas, inventions, and engineering) each nation ...

Town honors WWII pilot who averted deadly crash (EXCERPT) , By Ron Jensen, Stars and Stripes European edition, Wednesday, October 1, 2003 NEW ALRESFORD, England — This town nearly in the shadow of Winchester’s grand cathedral in south England marked the 60th anniversary Friday of the day no one...

Air Force Print News for Sept. 30, 2003 Dawn's morning light (Stand-alone photo) http://www.af.mil/stories/story.asp?storyID=123005710 Vietnam War MIAs identified http://www.af.mil/stories/story.asp?storyID=123005708

Ready, Aim, Acquire Why Moscow is selling advanced weapons to Asian friends -- and foes By Robin Ajello -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Russia's defense minister has a long list of potential enemies. Near the top, right after the West, come various...

From: Seethis Pass -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DEBUNKING CONSPIRACY THEORISTS PARANOID FANTASIES ABOUT SEPT 11 DISTRACT FROM THE REAL ISSUES by Gerard Holmgren

Just watched another WWII dogfight movie scene where the control stick shakes in unison with the firing guns. Is this Hollywood or did the firing of the guns carry through to the controls and cause stick shake as the movies depict? John

Sehr verehrte Kunden, Es sind wieder einige hervorragende neue Bücher eingetroffen. Jagdwaffe Vol.4/1 Holding the West 1941 - 1943 Wadman & Pegg,96 S.,über 270 Fotos,30 Farbprofile 23,- EU Luftwaffe im Focus Vol.3 48 Seiten,68 s/w und 4 Farbfotos,3 Farbprofile ...

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When the USAF decided to purchase the Navy F4H-1 Phantom II in 1962, what was the reason that they decided to go with 2 pilots and flight controls in the rear seat, vs. the Navy philosophy of pilot and NFO in the back? W. Woodruff

"Hobo" wrote in message ... Some people here have been claiming that the Iranians made effective and widespread use of the Phoenix missle against Iraq. I have always read that after the Shah fell US civilian...

Anyone have any data or direction for details on the rear position on the '109G12 two-seat trainer?