The Enlightenment wrote in message ... I was going to start a new thread on this but there is a case for putting duel stage supercharged packard merlins on a least some B17s and B24s simply to save refractory alloys. ...

Col. Robert Morgan, commander of the B-17 Memphis Bell, died late Saturday. He was 85. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040516/D82JF0500.html

354 new messages in RAM tonight and all but 35 of them in cross posted to h*** OT stuff that was marked as ignored by the time I was through looking. Poor signal to noise level tonight.

http://healingiraq.blogspot.com/ .... "When I arrived, there was already quite a crowd gathered in front of the hotel where the rigged car exploded. It was an '82 model Mercedes, and it was apparently not a suicide attack since the car, or what had remained of it, was in the middle of the street in...

It is now on record that Libya earlier this year admitted to having WMD programs, invited in inspectors and will dismantle the programs: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3335965.stm Is this the beginning of the useful changes in the middle east that some suggested would follow the "more active"...

The Middle East Media Research Institute excerpts a column in the Saudi daily Arab News by Dr. Muhammad Al-Rasheed. http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD63103 "Beware the march of history or the ides of March, whichever appeals to you. Those who have eyes and ears will learn from the...

Seems my niece's husband will be home from Iraq Saturday. He's had a stress fracture in his back and muscle spasms to go along with it and is coming back on a medical. Member of the 101st and is in Kuwait awaiting his flight home. She is, needless to say, pleased.

Just watched another WWII dogfight movie scene where the control stick shakes in unison with the firing guns. Is this Hollywood or did the firing of the guns carry through to the controls and cause stick shake as the movies depict? John

Canada's military is, and has been for over a decade, in a state of disarray. This is largely due to two facts. The first is the Trudeau government, which preached quasi-socialist values and viewed the Soviet Union not as an aggressor, but rather as the victim of American agression. Trudeau managed...

I've been reading 'MAGNESIUM OVERCAST - The Story of the Convair B-36', by Dennis R Jenkins, and have been finding it absolutely fascinating. Plenty of hard-core techno stuff, esp. powerplant, a subject near and dear to my heart. What doesn't seem to be covered is the B-36's electrical...

http://www.gatt.org/

Hi! I scanned these pics from 'Fighting Jets of WW2' by Jeffrey Ethell and Albert Price (which I thoroughly recommend btw) http://www.johnmullen.org.uk/temp/262.jpg The picture caption mentions that German helicopters were carried aboard HMS Reaper and the photo credits the Smithsonian, whose...

http://www.moveon.org/censure/caughtonvideo/

Anyone else noticed the odd coincidence of the NYC atrocity with Amerikkka's cynical destruction of Chile's elected government to be replaced by military dictatorship? John

Spiv wrote: "Vaughan Sanders" wrote in message ... "D. Patterson" wrote in message ... Definitely in some areas, definitely not in other areas,...

Richard Bernstein, NYT Reprinted in the International Herald Tribune. U.S. is losing the sympathy of the world BERLIN In the two years since Sept. 11, 2001, the view of the United States as a victim of terrorism that deserved the world's sympathy and support has given way in the months after the...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/4/newsid_2486000/24 86909.stm

Thought this might interest you. "Nov 2 US Army Co/159th AVN CH-47D Chinook Tail rotor pylon hit by one of two SA-7 Strela shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles fired from a date palm grove at 0900hrs whilst flying with another Chinook, which was undamaged. The two were ferrying around 60...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3234543.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3170000.stm