wrote in message ... Not in any particular order: Oh my. This is a list of misconceptions about FAA Procedures? Let me have a look. Net Kook Maxwell Smart claimed the following when attempting to fulfill a repeated...

wrote in message ... On Sat, 01 May 2004 11:09:10 GMT, "copprtopkiller" wrote: wrote in message ... On Fri, 30...

wrote in message ... On Sat, 01 May 2004 11:05:24 GMT, "copprtopkiller" wrote: snip And FAA procedures don't require the interception of hijacked aircraft.

DETHRONE THE DUBYA Help Dethrone The Dubya The Worst President In A Long, Long Time Who Should Have Concentrated On Osama Who Has Left Afghanistan In Chaos Who Led Us Into Iraq Under False Pretences Who Bungled That Very Same War And Turned Iraq Into A New Terrorist Base Lost 1,000 Americans,...

"old hoodoo" wrote in message ... Anyone know what has happened to the TAF Ki-43's that were being built near Fort Worth? About three years ago the wings were in the jigs and getting into an advanced stage of construction...

(JDupre5762) wrote in message ... I was looking on this site about an upcoming airshow, Westfield Airshow In the list of featured performers they list an A35 Vengeance! Does anyone know of one flying? Never heard of...

Jihadis operating from Pakistan ,using a remote controlled bomb(IED) attacked a US patrol and blewup the leg of one US soldier and broke the arm of another yesterday(Nov 23,2003). Staff Sgt. Roy Mitchell, of Batesville, Indiana lost his leg and Sgt. 1st Class Michael Eichner, of Stonington, Pa....

Last week two synagogues in Istanbul,Turkey were bombed. Today(Nov 24,2003) the Washington Post reporter Karl Vick in a front page article states clearly that these suicide bombers were trained in Pakistan. Gokhan Elaltuntas , Azad Ekinci and Mesut Cabuk had all gone to PAKISTAN for training in...

Hizb-i-Islami jihadis ,supported by the Pakistan Army ISI have attacked a US Army patrol with an IED bomb and have a killed one US soldier yesterday(Nov 14,2003) near Asadabad, which is in Kunar province on the border with Pakistan. Meanwhile the Taliban have carried out their cross-border...

Ran across two great aviation books on http://www.amazon.com that may be of interest. One is entitled THE LAST FLIGHT OF THE BLUE GOOSE. It`s about B-24 bomber that simply disappeared from Fort Myers Army Air Base, Florida in 1942. In 1977, after the death of a former Luftwaffe pilot a bizarre...

ANTHRAX IN A CAN When a lone terrorist can decimate a city with a Coke can full of anthrax it’s time to rethink our policies. Over six million 40x8x8 foot containers enter our ports annually and less than six percent are inspected. It only takes one container to conceal weapons that could wipe...

Is there a consistent basis for this designation in aircraft armament?

Further to the question of whether there are "decleration devices" that would enable a crippled aircraft to land safely, this evidently is breaking news: Parachute saves light plane's passengers VANCOUVER/ CKNW (AM980) -- Four people are alive today thanks to a relatively new parachute system for...

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...

I just now learned that then-Major Charles Sweeney, the pilot of Bockscar on the Nagasaki mission, died in Boston last Thursday at the age of 84. According to an obituary this morning in the Aero-News email newsletter: A staunch defender of the atomic missions, Sweeney told Quincy (MA) Patriot...

If you've been following this newsgroup for long enough, you may remember the saga of BW-372, the Brester Buffalo type that was recovered from a Russian lake six years ago. Spirited out of Russia in rather mysterious fashion, it has been hiding out in a hangar at Dublin airport ever since, while...

The more or less final (some would say "cooked") figures are in, and Europe's performance is not entirely as shabby as I earlier posted. Japan says it will provide $5 billion, including $3.5 billion in loans (as if Iraq needed any more of those, after what Germany, France, and Russia extended to...

From the New York Post this morning: September 11, 2004 -- CBS anchor Dan Rather hung tough last night and insisted there's no "definitive evidence" to refute the authenticity of documents about President Bush's National Guard service — but a growing number of document experts smell a hoax. "If...

New & improved at the Warbird's Forum for October: * A review of a superlative new book about the Iraq war: "The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the 1st Marine Division." The lead author is Bing West--fine writer, marine veteran, and former assistant secretary of defense....

Such fighters might have been hit, resulting in flashes and perhaps flames or trailing smoke to be observed by the gunner,' I seem to recall that the fuel injection in the Daimler-Benz engine resulted in a puff of smoke when the 109 pilot pushed over, which caused a lot of "confirmed kills" in...