"ArtKramr" wrote in message ... Subject: SHUT UP !!! YOU'LL JINX THE MISSION !!!! From: "Mike" Date: 8/8/2004 11:57 AM Pacific Standard Time Message-id:...

The sound of survival: Huey's distinctive 'whop-whop' will be heard again locally, By Ian Thompson/McNaughton Newspapers (EXCERPT) VACAVILLE -- Army Spc. 4th Class Reid Rose thought he'd had it as he saw the spurts of Viet Cong machine gun fire march their way toward the Huey helicopter in which...

Work is being done on a Gamma Ray Bomb. See: http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1018361,00.html How would a weapon like this compare to the current generation of nukes? Just curious.

Rare 1942 photo of Me-109 atop a DFS 230 further down the page: http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/aircraft/WWII/DFS230-glider/info/info.htm Rob

Thurs, 26Aug2004 BOLT 32: KC-135R, MacDill AFB 6AMW 1:44am: Reports brake hydraulic pressure low; IFE. Is inbound and very concerned about landing. Gets wx and runway conditions. REACH 106: C-17 9:32am: Refused touch-and-go, but gets to break off approach during Patrick Quiet Hours restriction,...

I've been a "lurker" in this group for at least a couple of years and though I haven't the expertise to add to a single thread, I have learned a "boatload" (pun intended)of information. For that, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas(or holiday of your choice) and a happy and prosperous...

Henderson Field is now renamed to Honiara international airport. But to many, it will always be Henderson Field. -- G Hassenpflug * IJN & JMSDF equipment/history fan

Thursday 16 Sep 2004 Many unusual handoff sequences today due to radar equipment outages caused by the recent hurricanes. N961BW: Casa 212, Av Worlwide Svc Melbourne (Mil training contractor) 9:58am: Lands Melbourne IAP.

I snagged comms from NASA 809 (ER-2, U-2 variant) on Thurs 19Aug at 1721z. First heard him on 348.7 (Miami Ctr @ Melbourne, Hi-alt); he announced "Above FL600," and requested "direct Warner Robins AFB." I heard him then on Jax Ctr freqs: 256.875, 290.35 and 346.3. Last heard him announce FL410. AL...

At 5:14pm EDT (2114z) Range Control announced on 157.1 that the Atlas 2AS will launch in about 40 minutes. The window is from 5:52pm to 8:46pm though. At 5:24pm, Cape Control announded a launch time of 2222z. But is it common for "holds" to delay the count. You can get some of the freqs I'm...

In the name of The Waco Executioner of Antichrist 9/4./04 Peace to the Brethren, Wouldn't it be... PERFECT JUSTICE... if Frances... totally devastated the Zionist infested state of Florida and then entered the Gulf, only to tripled in strength ,and then slam the hell

The Lie Factory By Robert Dreyfuss and Jason Vest Kwiatkowski, 43, a now-retired Air Force officer who served in the Pentagon's Near East and South Asia (NESA) unit in the year before the invasion of Iraq, observed how the Pentagon's Iraq war-planning unit manufactured scare stories about Iraq's...

huuto wrote in message ... Erosion of U.S. Industrial Base Is Troubling Growing dependence on foreign suppliers should concern policy makers by Sheila R. Ronis The U.S. industrial base is eroding, and this situation...

Hobo wrote in message ... How indicative of maneaverability are the max G numbers of fighter aircraft? Also, most new aircraft have reported max of 9Gs. Why are they all coming out at this same number? Modern aircraft are capable of higher G turns; however, in order to

airliners.net has a pic of N199AB with a caption that it's been returned to flying status. does anyone have more info on this? that would be a really amazing (and expensive) undertaking. iirc they only made a few dozen of these in total. here's a link to...

Good stuff,,DEFINEITELY BOOKMARKED THAT ONE,, Does any one know of a Marine equivelent?? Other than navsource http://www.navsource.org/ And the various photo archive sites that have various randon shoots of ships? ~Voigt Robert Lundin wrote in message...

We have been down this road before. U.S. troops sent to war half a world away. American foreign policy controlled by an arrogant elite, bent on projecting military power around the globe. A public misled into supporting an unconstitutional war founded on deceit and fabrications. As the death toll...

Misawa air show set for Sunday (EXCERPT) , By Juliana Gittler, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Saturday, September 6, 2003 MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan — About 100,000 people from northern Japan are expected Sunday for the Misawa Air Festival, a Japanese Air Self-Defense Force air show augmented by...

Perhaps this is a sermon to the choir, but I dropped by the UH annex last Monday (MLK Day, off from work) and spent a good couple of hours just wandering around on my own, marveling at the place. It's HUGE...realistically speaking, the curators have probably only filled 2/3 of the floor space...

"Cub Driver" wrote in message ... Where did the German soldier (officer?) stereotypes of the monocle and the dueling scar come from? Was there one guy in WW I or WW II who had them? The stereotype was created by Erich von...