Any new info on the B-17 belly landing at Van Nuys? How bad was the damage to the old warbird? Posted via www.My-Newsgroups.com - web to news gateway for usenet access!

First woman in Missouri Air National Guard awarded Bronze Star Associated Press (EXCERPT) ST. JOSEPH, Mo. - An air traffic controller from northwest Missouri is the first woman in the Missouri Air National Guard to receive the Bronze Star for her work in northern Iraq. Master Sgt. Lettia...

The Vietnam War Veterans Directory The Vietnam War Veterans Directory (Collectors Edition) is NOT for sale. The Directory is FREE to ALL until the remaining inventory has been completely distributed. For information on obtaining a FREE copy of the Vietnam War Veterans Directory see...

Soon a retired USAF (ex RAAF) (Q)F-4G Phantom will be heading to Australia to a collection of a friend of mine. Serial is 69-7207. This hunter also scored the last HARM/Sam kill by a F-4G in 1993. Any former weasels who flew this aircraft could they email me with info if can on their time with...

In either case it's a good indicator that Al Qaeda, while certainly not to be ruled out as a potential threat, is suffering more difficulties than previously believed. IMO,Al Queda ,like every other terrorist organization,is a proxy of a govermental intel agency, they are used and dumped when...

I'm currently working on a 1/72 Bell X-1, and I'd like to put it in a vignette showing Yeager standing next to the plane just after landing on the day of his first supersonic flight. In one (maybe both) of his biographies, Yeager says he was met by the Muroc fire chief, just like on every prior...

TORTUREGATE TORTURE INTERCONNECTIONS - The U.S. and Israel ISRAELI TORTURE and U.S. COMPLICITY THEN AND NOW Mid-East Realities - MER - www.MiddleEast.Org - 6 May 2004: The U.S. and Israel have been torture interconnected in the Middle East for quite a long time. Those now infamous hoods --...

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The F/A-22 program has managed to get 22 Raptors bugeted. The Senate committee's bill authorizes $3.4 billion to buy 22 F/A Raptor aircraft, Down from the 24 wanted by the Whitehouse, Congressional defenders of the Georgia made F/A-22 Raptor face another fight to get its production numbers...

http://www.drudgereport.com/rcmu.htm Excerpt: On the way to his infamous landing on an aircraft carrier, Bush toyed with his Secret Service agent by intentionally shaking the plane from side to side and then nosing downward so sharply they lifted out of their seats. ~~~!

Got a couple nifty photos in today - both sourced from a 456 RAAF Beaufighter crewman. One is of great interest to me as it shows four members of the unit - a 2-man flight crew, an erk, and a jovial sort that is making a show of wearing a wireless set connecting him to the flightcrew. These people...

Historical Center Historian Writes Book On Vietnam Air War (EXCERPT) Story Number: NNS040506-07 Release Date: 5/7/2004 1:14:00 AM, by Audrey Leble', Naval Historical Center Public Affairs WASHINGTON (NNS) -- A Naval Historical Center (NHC) historian's new book on the Vietnam War, released in May,...

Speech: Air Power: The Men, Machines and Ideas (EXCERPT) Barnes & Noble Booksellers Reston, Virginia (United States) Budiansky, Stephen, Writer, http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dfullschedule --------------------------- Otis Willie Associate Librarian The American...

Hi I just heard the F/A-22 is getting 10.8 hours before software problems, this is almost double the requirement for IOE&T, the major blue screen problem hasn't happened in over 1000 hours of flight. Anyone have a proper link to this story, or any other background. Cheers John Cook

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What tracer rounds are used with the longer range PGU-28/B 20mm cartidges? I cannot find reference to a (non-target-practice) tracer with equivalent ballistics.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2001920964_pattymurray06.html So if you oppose the Tanker deal you're not only unamerican but also a stodge of the EU? -HJC How do you say "Boeing, Boeing, Gone" in French anyway?

F-15 Crashes In Rural Virginia Pilots Parachute To Safety POSTED: 7:14 pm EDT May 6, 2004 UPDATED: 10:03 pm EDT May 6, 2004 CALLAWAY, Va. -- An F-15E fighter jet on a training flight crashed Thursday afternoon several miles west of Rocky Mount, military and Franklin County authorities said. Two...

The hungarian state radio reported this morning that overall 25 (twenty five) iraqi and afghani prisoners were tortured to death by US personnel since late 2001 and there is irrefutable proof of torture in at least...