http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3292551.stm What do you think, would the airframe be a write-off? Would the USAF do this or just eject as the safer, although more expensive option? - Michael

Can someone comment on the best aircraft for this job? My gut suggests that among the planes a nation might be able to buy the best might be something like a Mig-21 or Q-5 Fantan with western radar or an F-5 (if they are...

Sehr verehrte Kunden, Sonderaktion/Bargain/Restposten/Second Hand/Platz machen vom 27.07.2003 bis 15.09.2003 Waffen Arsenal 3,Nashorn,Hummel,Brummbär 10,- EU 15,Junkers Ju 88 Heft 1 10,- EU 18,Panzer I ...

Anyone catch this on the news channels? A contingent of US military experts including heavily armed US Marines landed today at the US Embassy compound helipad in Monrovia, Liberia aboard.....a Russian Mi-8T helicopter. Nice looking ship, hooked up with rescue winch, in blue-white colors. It had...

I had a wound over my eyebrow which required six stitches while serving in Viet Nam and I didn't get a purple heart. I think the fact that Kerry's PH was issued in spite of the fact that his lesser wound resulted from misemployment of his own weapon indicates that I should have received the PH as...

Citizens for Honest Fighter Pilots Open Letter To Media http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=8954&fcategory_desc=Under%20Reported {EXCERPT} Independent Media TV - 4 hours ago to coverage of allegations about Bush's military service in the National Guard, as was given to the...

Seeing a couple fly over one at a time this weekend leads me to ask: Is there any easy way to tell a plain-old Hornet from a Super-hornet if it's alone in the sky? I know the E/F's are bigger, but, that ain't much help without the other one next to it. Is this one where you just have to really...

Fire officer tops in field — again (EXCERPT) , By Franklin Fisher, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Tuesday, October 14, 2003 These days, young airmen call him “sergeant two-time.” It started in August after Air Force Master Sgt. Michael L. Rosser earned a top-level military fire services...

Air Force Print News for Sept. 23, 2004 Top prop (Stand-alone photo) http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123008744 Some Airmen can carry over 'use or lose' leave http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123008748

FoxNews: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,91334,00.html Report: Seven Killed at Mississippi Defense Plant Tuesday, July 08, 2003 MERIDIAN, Miss. — A gunman opened fire at a Lockheed Martin plant

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Vietnam era F-4 guys got anyone interested. The 8th Black Sheep guys are now flying F-117s. ******* Blacksheep, Some sad news; Paul Chase passed away on Tuesday June 24th. I have included an email from Les Prichard, a mutual friend. Jon Davis, Ed DiBello and I plan to attend the memorial and...

from http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/inring.htm Air National Guard Maj. Harry Schmidt steadfastly has remained silent ever since the Air Force began investigating him in the "friendly fire" deaths of Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan. Now, Maj. Schmidt is speaking for the first time via a...

FORMATIONS, BOMB RUNS AND RADIUS OF ACTION Formation flying burned fuel. Lots of fuel. And the tighter the formation the the more fuel burned. And the further back you were in the formation the more fuel burned. Look at it this way. The lead plane set throttles for the desired IAS and pretty...

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Is this news from the same Soviet government that said they were not sending combat pilots into Korea? Or the same Soviet government that said there was no radiation leak from Chernobyl? Or the Soviet official sources that insisted they were 'winning' in Afganistan right up to the day they...

Hey Gang: So with all of the recent anonymous smear campaigns- unsubstantiated, "howler" type accusations- you know, the ones from anonymous posters with all of the ~~~ symbols etc. . . . .. . . does anyone want to take up a rational, fact based discussion of the premise that "both sides do it" ...

The recent thread on "most beautiful things" has brought back many memories. We were flying a maximum effort (56 Marauders) heading East into Germany We were in the number two slot in the high flight flying deputy lead. Way in the distance I saw a tiny spot coming toward us As it came closer I saw...

UK pilots start Apache training (EXCERPT) By Damian Kemp, JDW Staff Reporter, London The first training conversion course for the British Army's Apache AH Mk 1 attack helicopter aircrew began at the Army Aviation Centre, Middle Wallop on 1 September, marking an important step towards bringing the...

What's the source of the material that the north koreans are using to make their nukes. Does it come from their own reactors? It's being described in the press as "reprocessed nuclear fuel rods". Are they getting the stuff from sources in the west ? As an aside- interesting that the 2 countries...