The B-26 Martin Marauder needed power poured on to execute the flareout. If that was not done, the aicraft would not pull up and just plow into the ground. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website...

The US Air Force has a somewhat little known but a fantastic gem of a museum just outside of the main gates to Elgin Air Force Base just east of Pensacola, Florida. Anyone know how this museum survived the hurricane? Given all the damage at NAS Pensacola, one might fear the worst since many of...

Does the C-130 have two 1553 buses onboard? One for flight control and one for EW/mission systems? Thanks in advance, Dave

Around 1500 people attended this years ceremony held at the Cambridge American Military Cemetery on Monday and more than 118 associations laid wreaths at the beautiful plot on Madingley Road which was gifted to the US by the grateful people and Colleges of Cambridge. Approx 4000 US servicemen of...

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Leading the day to day operations of terrorist/suicide bombing group Hamas is getting to be a pretty scary job. Ironic, huh? Dave GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (April 17) - Israel assassinated Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi in a missile strike on his car Saturday, part of its declared campaign to wipe...

My website just exceeded 50,000 hits. Thank you all who have visited and directed so many others to visit. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

you may recall before the age of sat links, uplink, downlink repeaters etc. If you care to respond I would be interested in wx conditions and location at the time. Thanks Rico

Why have most newer fighter designs not used swing wings? It seems in the US, the F14 and F111 were the last to go with swing wings. It seems the major reasons for using them is having the best of both worlds in wing loading at both low and high speeds. Why have the newer designs avoided them?...

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Amphetamines, sedatives, anti-nerve agents, adrenaline and a whole variety of vaccines, including anthrax, make up a cocktail of chemicals banned by civilian authorities in the ordinary workplace, yet forced upon pilots flying multi-million dollar jets into combat First,...

Do you think that above is somehow due to that is discussed below? Michael from "Notes from a Big Country" by Bill Bryson There are idiots in every country, Michael, obviously. In my son's elementary class, there are 22 kids; fifteen of them were tested for the GATE program and

Has there ever been any research into the top scoring individual aircraft (not type) of any era? Presume it would be WWII. AL

It has not yet met all the requirements And costs are soaring So, those tiny stupid guys betting just on that technologies are not even sure to just buy one of them...

I see we have that old problem again about if "it" should have been used or not.. Well I did some research. I checked over the wanted adds in papers from Ca to Wa for Oct and Nov 1941. I did not see any adds from America asking another country to attack us. Ok we got that out of the way, We did...

So, how are these pilotless aircraft expected to comply with the see-and-avoid mandate? ------------------------------------------------------------------- AVflash Volume 9, Issue 48b — November 27, 2003 ------------------------------------------------------------------- UNMANNED, THE WAY OF...

Which ones. And why? Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

Does it move when say when the pilot wants to climb, or does it have pressure sensors on a rigid stick so the stick can inform the computers the pilots hand is pressing on the front of the stick and he wants the F-16 to climb? Christopher +++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Kites rise highest against the...

My gf has a kid who's an airplane nut. He just enrolled in JROTC in his high school and is suddenly motivated about school. He had a broken arm (skater d00d) that was repaired with the usual metal plates, which he still has. Should this impact his flight eligibility? She's got great...

On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Charles Talleyrand wrote: Imagine four your favorite combat aircraft of 1963 going up against four modern F/A-18s in a BVR engagement. Suppose that the 1963 pilots were smart and willing to employ the best tactics available. Even so we suppose the F-18s win almost every...