I have been watching the DVD of Dark Blue World the film about Czech fighter pilots in WW2. In the first scenes of the movie the pilots are training in Czechoslovakia before the German invasion. Several of the aircraft are clearly Bucker Jungmann types but there is another that is different. The...

Can anyone tell me about the Albemarle light bomber? -- G Walker

Hi guys, Does anyone know when the use of PT-13/17 Stearman's was phased out by the US armed services? Any ideas which training base used them last? TIA don

Subject: babble, was Why didn't Bush fight? From: "S. O. Damocles" Date: 8/29/2004 2:09 PM Pacific Standard Time Message-id: Bob Coe wrote: "S. O. Damocles" wrote Perry wrote: On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 14:40:55...

That helicopter egress was a pathetic joke. Pathetic! I'd be amazed if any hostages survive. G

Of course, Hamas were the same people dancing in the streets of the Gaza Strip on 9-11. I think they spilled their true intent, vis-a-vis the US, with the threats they made after the hit on Yassin. GW Bush should not allow them to walk away from their threats now. Hamas is an enemy. Dave GAZA...

Anyone know where can be found a decent pic of the nose art of Hell's Angel?? TIA

Does this mean the Iranian "Atoms for Peace" "electricity production program" also actually produces byproducts that can be enriched by running them through centerfuges produced by Dr. Khan's proliferation network based on the centerfuge design he stole from the Dutch company that briefly employed...

'Just watched it. Shocking. The swaying, leering drummer; the twitching eyebrows, the stumbling feet, the quizzical, humanoid (close up) lips, the aberrant hands.. The IDIOT with bearskin down to his nose (singular).. 'bunch of monkeys.l. ROT! Rubbish.l We Sow Thefrican conscripts do (did)...

From: (Michael Petukhov) How's your economy doing? Still on life support? Is your losing the war in Chechnya a major economic drain? Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

Jack Nichols wrote: I endorse Senator John Kerry for President and Senator John Edwards for Vice President, and that is not a premature selection. It is what Republicans fear. So did you post this in honor of Kerry's birthday? (He turned 60 on Thursday) Not to...

The U.S. Navy on Monday said it had ordered 210 F/A-18E/F Super Hornet attack jets worth $8.5 billion from BOEING CO. and would pay Boeing $979 million to develop and demonstrate a new variant, the EA-18G, with upgraded weapons. The Navy had previously ordered 222 Super Hornets under a 5-year deal...

Just saw this on Ebay :-) http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2450501898&category=26432 Hmm. Wonder if I can stick an arrester hook on a 152... :-)

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/cri_rap USA is the number 1!

For a reinactment, lets let Enola Gay drop one more...maybe in the Northwest Area of Pakistan...(we could use one of Pakistan's nukes and justify it as a nuclear test)....maybe we will get lucky. Osama wants nuclear war anyways so lets give him a taste. Think of the backdrop of a nuke with all...

Recently, there were 5 women on Oprah who claim they were rape victims while at the AF academy. I was wondering if this ever happened at USAF OTS in Alabama? I had never heard anything about that while I was there. Then again, someone else tells me that saltpeter was added to the food to make...

To understand the Constitutional issues involved in holding prisoners in Cuba go to Google and download the Supreme Court case " Ex Parte Milligan 1866". That will make everything clear. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website...

http://www.japan-press.co.jp/2331/self.html The Japanese Self-Defense Forces have started their first aerial refueling exercise with U.S. forces in preparation for the introduction of their own refueling aircraft in 2006. .... Defense Agency Director General Ishiba Shigeru said the SDF's possession...

Here's a question-- I've read some theories that the marines will eventually need a new gunship to escort V-22's. Many of these involve a AV-22 style design. But my question is this-- as I understand it, the V-22 is very ineffecient and unmanuverable in VTO mode-- it's not a helicopter that flies...

Can anyone provide any information on a Finnish JU-88 which was supposedly recovered from an unkown lake some 100 km south of Leningrad (these days St Petersburg)in Russia in the 90's and now resides somewhere in New Zealand? The plane apparently ditched in late 1944. Any info greatly...