From what I remember and what I can read they are no longer issued and the NFO came out in 1968. Yet I see a website where someone claiming to be a commander and being commissioned in 82 wearing A/O wings on his uniform. In my limited 16 year career (med disch not retired) I never once seen...

an interesting thread (and pictures) on an unrelated website. (take note of the F4, maybe someone here knows the driver) http://radioreference.com/forums/showthread.php?t=85681

Hello all, After a long period of silence we are able to show you or new designed website www.afterburner.nl We are starting off with 4 new articles (with over 250 pictures): - Inside report from OEF operations out of Manas/Kyrgyzstan www.afterburner.nl/manas.htm - A one week trip report to...

Aviation Week Group Debuts Defense Technology International Today http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050912/nym156.html?.v=22 {EXCERPT} Yahoo! News (press release) - 6 hours ago This feature analyzes the lessons learned from current military operations and investigates what's next on the list of...

http://www.zone-5.com Pictures of the F-14 Tomcat, Tornado, F-117, B-2, F-22, JSF, Space Shuttle, and many more. Also Airshow Schedules with links to show's site, Programs, Sounds, and links.

http://www.zone-5.com Pictures of the F-14 Tomcat, Tornado, F-117, B-2, F-22, JSF, Space Shuttle, and many more. Also Airshow Schedules with links to show's site, Programs, Sounds, and links.

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Well - in keeping with the recently posted NG charter for this joint, I offer this up: Do group members here think this is a good idea?? My days as an AW (S-3A's & B's) concentrated on sub-hunting and aviation acoustic analysis, ISAR RADR, MAD, et al. But merging the rating with mechs and metal...

Everyone knows that one wipes out a career full of attaboys. What is your favorite non-fatal "aw ****" story? I thought we could also make a thread and tell about the best flying each of us encountered. On Ike in 1980, we had Whales. Either one or two of the massive things, but they were...

Watched Memphis Belle again, anyone know how they kept from shooting each other in those formations?

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I'm aware that B-17s attacked Japanese Shipping during WW2 (battle of Midway comes to mind), but that they were way too high and didn't hit anything. Speaking hypothetically, would it have radically improved anthing if the B-17 attacked from a much lower altitude? I'm thinking that the B-17 was...

While reading about the Japanese Heavy cruiser Aoba (Unusual looking, with undulating decks, and remodel drasticly changed what some consider 2 of the class, from 6 turrets to 3.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Aoba I saw this unusual account: "On April 3, ((1943)) while moored...

http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htairfo/articles/20080815.aspx B-1B Gets A Legal Sniper August 15, 2008: On August 4th, a U.S. B-1B heavy bomber used a Sniper targeting pod in combat for the first time. These pods enable the aircraft crew to see, in great detail, what's happening on the...

I have been doing some research and was amazed at the B-24's accident rate. From April 10, 1944 to August 31,1944, the Replacement Training Unit at Chatham AAF, Savannah, Georgia had 23 accidents. In those accidents, nine of the B-24 were destroyed and there were 54 deaths. My question: Was the...

Hello All -- You are invited to drop by Zeno's Warbird Video Drive-In www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com and catch our Pacific Theater Double Feature of World War II aviation films for free online video viewing. * This month "At the Matinee," we're featuring the B-29 & P-51 combat classic "The Last...

According to: http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htnavai/articles/20071128.aspx "The B-2 can carry Harpoon anti-ship missiles." Since when?

Yahoo! News U.S. B-52 bomber crashes off Guam, 6 crew missing 44 minutes ago A U.S. B-52 bomber that was due to fly in a Liberation Day parade in the U.S. territory of Guam on Monday crashed into the Pacific Ocean soon after take-off, news reports and officials said.

Received in the e-mail this morning: This picture is real because I witnessed this flyby personally. This picture was taken in the spring of 1990 as we started are deployment to the Persian Gulf. I was up in the "tower" with the air boss as the Viking squadron rep

A 1968 letter from Defense Secretary Clifford to State Secretary Rusk at http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/johnsonlb/xii/2262.htm mentioned that the air bases in Spain were originally built for SAC operations and some B-58 bombers and accompanying tankers were earmarked for forward deployment...