The Federation would like to show its appreciation, while the planet was under attack again this week. "We have detected other incoming devices, and we can deal with them as well," said the military defense spokesman. An unknown device entered the atmosphere, and was destroyed by the air defense...

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"mellstrr" wrote in message ... Listen, the little dicktater is worried that all this is going to hurt his chances of re-election, since all the democratic challengers are beating on these issues day in and day out in the...

WASHINGTON - The FBI (news - web sites) is warning police nationwide to be alert for people carrying almanacs, cautioning that the popular reference books covering everything from abbreviations to weather trends could be used for terrorist planning. In a bulletin sent Christmas Eve to about...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36979-2003Dec28.html First used in the second Gulf war in 1990, the stop loss system has become the new draft. It is a win-win for the country, because young men and woman don't have to be conscripted out of civilian life, while keeping soldiers...

I just picked up a copy of Flyboys at BJ's Wholesale Club. Read the first two chapters last night. I was amazed that the author uses the term Flyboys throughout the book, or at least throughout the first chapter. I'd assumed it was just a cute title, but no: "Flyboys were over Chici Jima"...

I am doing research for a book detailing aircraft accidents in North Tynedale and Redesdale, Northumberland, UK and I am trying to identify a Hurricane that made a forced landing behind Rochester village during WWII. I have searched nearly all of the Air Britain Serial Number publications for a...

On this day in 1944 the Germans began shelling theWirtz-Bastogne crossroad in an attempt to push the 101st Airborne out of the defense of Bastogne. They failed. .Temperature went down to below freezing in the bitter cold of that Belgian winter and the 101st was down to eating K rations. Those...

Just my thought-- is it that Hirosshima wsa so bad, (and it wasn't worse than Tokyo), or are we simply projecting the emotional and moral baggage that nuclear weapons have come to be associated with on it?

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item: In October, a Chinese official report called for greater trade with the EU, and for the EU's arms embrago against China to be lifted. item: German foreign minister Gerhard Schroder recently visited China and said arms embrago should be lifted. item: a spokesman for EADS (large European arms...

I've Googled up what I could but I'm looking for some more dimensions... In particular major dimensions of the propellers, approx. diameter of fuselage at wings, and approx. thickness of wings at the fuselage... Thanks much. Cheers, -Ali -- OpenPGP Key: 030E44E6 --

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Thinking back about that B29 on the greenland ice, and how maybe it *could* have been recovered, I've pulled together these facts: The C-130 can land on unimproved runways. The interior space is about 9x10x40 feet, about 20,000 pounds max load. The B-29 fuselage is 9.5 feet maximum diameter.

Greetings All, After reading Tony Williams' excellent post, and learning that air craft cannons actually shoot explosive rounds with triggers and fuses, I have to ask "What happens to the rounds that miss the target?" Was there a method to insure the round triggered prior to ground impact? I...

What was the timetable for British development for their 20 mm cannon ammuniation during WW2? I'm aware that RAF tried to install first cannons to Spit Is but this was initially a failure. Early Spit V models were introduced with 60 round supply to the Hispanos, later with 120 rounds per gun. Some...

From: RogerM "Col. RJ" wrote: First off, **** Japan, they started it, we finished it. First off, **** you asshole. The women and children who were murdered didn't have **** to with Pearl Harbor.

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Hi Art, I was reading a journal / diary ( http://home.att.net/~sallyann4/samuelson1.html ) about how many problems B29's were having mechanically. How was Willie as far as down time?