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With retention high, Air Force cuts re-enlistment period from 12 to 3 months (EXCERPT) , By Lisa Burgess, Stars and Stripes European edition, Friday, February 13, 2004 ARLINGTON, Va. — Beginning March 5, active-duty airmen will have only a three-month window during which they’ll be eligible to...

http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/07/25/nuns.missilesilo.ap/index.html President "Bush has said weapons of mass destruction are horrible and I agree," she said. "We haven't found any in Iraq, but we sure have lot of them here."

"WASHINGTON, June 22 — Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz, a prime architect of the Bush administration's Iraq policy, said Tuesday that the Pentagon had underestimated the violent tenacity of an insurgency that formed after Baghdad fell, and he acknowledged that the United States may be...

Woman to take over Air Force Academy dean post http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20040717-0213-academy-dean.html {EXCERPT} ASSOCIATED PRESS 2:13 a.m. July 17, 2004 AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. – A woman has been nominated to replace a dean at the Air Force Academy who was criticized for...

Woman's sentence suspended in attempt to set captain on fire (EXCERPT) , By Hiroshi Chida, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Sunday, August 17, 2003 HACHIOJI, Japan — A Tokyo District Court judge handed Kimiko Kishiguchi a suspended two-year prison sentence Friday for attempting to set a former...

Having read the latest flap about the President's days flying in the ANG, I wondered what flying the F-102 was like - that's what I'd ask him if I met him. Back then, before redundant flight-control computers made the human pilot a voting member of a committee, how hard was it to control a...

Probably slightly against the rules, but I hope people will bear with me. I found a stack of the first 20 World Air Power Journals at a used bookstore last weekend. That means I'm now missing only a few issues, but I also have some duplicates. I need #21, #22, #24, #25, #26, #27, #28, and...

If anyone here enjoys collecting World War II aircraft bomber parts, you may be interested in some bombight reticles now up for auction: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=585&item=2188488847

World War II airmen remember danger (EXCERPT) By BRIAN GRAY, TORONTO SUN About 125 men who fought in the air over Southeast Asia during World War II will touch down and catch up in Niagara Falls today. The Burma Bombers Association is holding a reunion and Air Force veterans from South Africa,...

World War II Era Plane at Pocatello's Airport http://www2.kidktv.com/x18258.xml?ParentPageID=x3963&ContentID=x54935&Layout=kidk.xsl&AdGroupID=x18258 {EXCERPT} KIDK, ID bomb run.Dropped our bombs and we were hit in our left wing and the plane broke up and crashed and 4 of us got out of 9," says ex...

World War II Flying 'Ace' Salutes Racial Progress, By Gerry J. Gilmore (EXCERPT) American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2004 * Decorated World War II aviator and "Ace" Lee Andrew Archer Jr., 84, says he dreamed of becoming a fighter pilot at an early age. The Yonkers, N.Y.-born...

World War II Pilots Honored at Luncheon (EXCERPT) By JOSEPH M. TARTAKOFF Contributing Writer Roughly six years ago, a World War II aviator attended a ceremony in honor of the black fighter pilots who had protected bombers like himself, looking for someone to thank. He found a forgotten third...

World War II-era B-17 makes belly landing THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (EXCERPT) LOS ANGELES -- A vintage World War II-era B-17 bomber with six people on board made a belly landing at a municipal airport after its landing gear collapsed, officials said. There were no immediate reports of injury. The...

Okay, online flightsim question time. Did the Curtiss or P&W Radial engines rotate on a mount and spin the propellor like their WWI predecessors or were they fixed and drove a propellor shaft? I've seen WWI Era fighters with the engine exposed and the cylinders spin, but all the WWII aircraft the...

About the world's worst airplane disaster at Los Rodeos airport in the Canary Islands on Sunday 27 March 1977. Two jumbo jets (KLM Boeing 747 PH-BUF and Pan American Boeing 747, N736PA) collided on the runway after KLM's most senior pilot Captain Jacob van Zanten commenced takeoff without proper...

I'm not talking about factoring in built-in air to ground capability, I'm talking about strictly air to air and escort.

Looking at a recent article of the convair xc-99 pusher transport I'm suprised convair didn't consider turning it into a civil airlinner during development . With the ability to carry 400 passengers, wouldn't this plane have ushured in the concept of mass-air travel decades before the 747 if it had...

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