Is there a plan to replace the Venerable C-130 or upgrade it to a new level of performance? I did at one time see a print that showed a "tilt-Wing" variant, for Extreme short field take offs, but nothing else. Could the Fuselage be widened to accommodate the Stryker Wheeled APV with its add-on...

Reading what appears to be a solid history of FDR and espionage. Author makes the flat statement that in 1940 someone in the Norden plant smuggled out the plans, which went to Germany. From these, the Germans "developed their own bombsight," presumably based on the Norden. The author points out the...

Looks like the Israeli association to the intelligence/torture is completely being white washed for Israel (read former Republican Congressman Paul Findley's 'They Dare to Speak Out' book to see why): http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id= 3446 Israeli link...

According to internal Pentagon e-mails obtained by Newsweek, the Humvee situation is so bad that the head of the U.S. Army Forces Command, Gen. Larry Ellis, has urged that more of the new Stryker combat vehicles be put into the field. Sources say that the Army brass back in Washington have not yet...

This from the Aero-News Propwash email newsletter this morning: *********************************************** USAF Names First Female To Command Combat Squadron And You'll Never Guess... The 354th Fighter Squadron, based at Arizona's Davis-Monthan AFB, has a new commander: Lt. Col. Martha...

Greetings All, http://tinyurl.com/2njqf Take Care, James Lerch http://lerch.no-ip.com/atm (My telescope construction, Testing, and Coating site) Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius...

Air Force Print News for May 10, 2004 Let the sparks fly (Stand-alone photo) http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123007677 Command post controllers key to information flow http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123007680

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/04/09/nraf09.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/04/09/ixhome.html The reason for the lack of Merlin spares is that when the MoD embarked on the Merlin programme in the early 1990s, it decided to cut costs by not buying any spare parts, the sources...

From the NYT: It's hard to imagine what the Pentagon was thinking when it told the American Army and Marine replacement divisions bound for Iraq earlier this year to leave their tanks and other heavily armored vehicles behind. American military planners seem to have ignored evidence that armed...

Hi everybody, Some news over there : http://www.airliners.net/open.file/570275/M/ Fil330

Wed. 7 Apr 2004 I was able to snag comms from many Mil acft that abounded in Florida today from Key West down south all the way to Pinecastle Range in mid Florida. NY-ANG F-16s continued to work local ranges; some of them departed back to Syracuse, after a week's stay here. Many NASA T-38s came...

Bricks work real good. The Durango 95 purred away real horrorshow. A nice warm vibratey feeling all through your guttiwuts.

Soldiers' warnings ignored Failures: The blame for what happened at Abu Ghraib goes far beyond the military police, intelligence soldiers say. By Todd Richissin Sun Foreign Staff Originally published May 9, 2004 WIESBADEN, Germany - The two military intelligence soldiers, assigned interrogation...

Judging from the film footage of blimp ops during WW2 at New Jersey, I was wondering if there were any midairs between airships/zepps? Don't seem to have run across any on the web or in print...Pat

Hi guys, We are having a little problem with some rabid konspiracy kooks in a private mailing list. One of the dead horses they are flogging is the failure of ATC and NORAD to follow 'normal' procedures in time to intercept the Sept 11 aircraft which to them means collusion. Some time back there...

Last month the FAI ratified 50 speed records B-1B 85-0068 set at the Edwards AFB air show last year. Half the records are for turbojet landplanes with takeoff weight 100,000 to 150,000 kg. Speed over 100 km closed course with 0, 1000, 2000, 5000, 10000, 15000, 20000, 25000 kg payload: 1045.65...

Is it correct to say that maximum sustained turn rate of an aircraft is equivalent to steepest bank angle aircraft can sustain in a turn? Emilio

Hi All In an almost futile effort to get some aviation related stuff back on RAM.....Here goes... Both Italy and the UK are planning to use both the JSF and the Eurofighter, AIUI the thinking behind this is that the Eurofighter Typhoon is more AtoA and the JSF F-35 is more AtoG, having two...

There are several good books around . I read one a few years ago called Viper about an F-16 pilot in the Gulf war (first one). Another great book was IIRC "Danger" or something like that. It was a compilation of many accounts from Approach magazine. There was another such book made by the company...

Hi All Heres something from Reuters... "U.S. arms giant Lockheed Martin Corp , which made the F-16s, was accused by Norwegian politicians of failing to hand out enough sub-contracts to Norwegian firms under a plan to develop a new generation fighter.