We've had a couple scenarios of aircraft going back in time and speculation on what sort of effect they'd have. I just saw a show on the A-10 Warthog with a top speed of 420 mph. That's WWII fighter speeds (although I'm not certain at what altitude). Since an A-10 can carry something like 16,000...

The US postwar history: Korea: stalemate Cuban Missile Crisis: stalemate Vietnam: LOST Operation Eagle Claw (Iranian Hostage Rescue): Failure Lebanon: Marines blown up- failure Reagan-Bush years: a string of success shooting down a few Libyan MiGs and attacking small puny nations with no AF-...

Are there aviation-related reasons why the starboard side is favored for the island, or is it a purely naval issue? If the latter, did the practice come about because the first pioneering carriers were arbitrarily drawn up that way and the configuration simply stuck as a matter of tradition, or...

From: Seethis Pass -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DEBUNKING CONSPIRACY THEORISTS PARANOID FANTASIES ABOUT SEPT 11 DISTRACT FROM THE REAL ISSUES by Gerard Holmgren

Photo of Kerry with Fonda enrages Vietnam veterans A photograph of John Kerry together with Jane Fonda at an anti-Vietnam War rally in 1970 in Pennsylvania has surfaced on the Internet, angering veterans who say his association with her 34 years ago is a slap in the faces of Vietnam War...

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Scared, Trigger-Happy Young Males by Doug Casey The war in Iraq is going to fail, utterly and disastrously. There are many reasons for that, but one more lies in the prevailing psychological mindset of the U.S. military. I'm not referring so much to the young grunts, who are driven mostly by a...

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...

"u don't have to know" wrote in message ... What happen to obsolete weapons as AIM-7 Sparrow which have been replaced by AIM-120 ? Destroyed or stored ? Generally they're used up if still useable, scrapped if past...

OK, now this is really old information, but as a kid I recall reading somewhere that the F-16 set a record for single-engine production fighters, with a top speed of Mach 2.32, and that this was (at the time I heard) still a record for single engine production fighters. Is this true, or did it set...

Singapore has down selected the F15, Rafale and the Eurofighter typhoon for their next generation fighter.... The F16, F18E/f and Sukhoi Su-30MK were rejected. "Asked how the final three were chosen, Mindef said it had looked at several factors like operational performance, the availability...

"Therasa" wrote in message ... Why won't Kerry sign a form 180 releasing his records? It will take an overwhelmingly vocal and visual public demand by a large special interest group like the Swifties to force...

http://lenta.ru/russia/2003/11/12/moon/ (in russian) Today russia's agency for aviation and space research and india's organization for space research signed a deal to prepare joint automatic and manned missions to Moon by 2008. Michael

22 Aug 2004 - Today’s Military, Veteran, War and National Security News You can also receive this resource listing that is published daily via email by The American War Library (www.amervets.com). Go to this URL for more info: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/war-correspondents/ Marine on trial...

The tighter the formation you fly the tighter the bomb pattern on the ground and the more damage you do to the enemy. http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer/stripes.htm

Aerophotos wrote in message news: ... hey evan Yes? if you think our adf is so pathetic in vietnam care to explain why we only lost 500 over 10yrs from a 50,000 total force and you yanks lost 56,000 in 10yrs from a force of 585,000?

It seems to me that the Germans and Japanese had a lot more cannon in their planes than the Americans who seemed to rely almost totally on .50 machine guns. Why was that? What was the rate of fire or the 20mm cannons and what type of projectiles did they fire?

Ramsey Clark? Saddam's most persistent apologist-anything he writes/says is heavily suspect. He even offered to defend the Butcher of Baghdad at his upcoming trial. Mr. Clark would be advised to collect his fee in advance. And get ready to defend himself on charges of aid and comfort to the...

I just had to pass this along -- Enjoy. Guy ----------------------------------------------------------- What follows is classic aviation lore. John Lear gave this talk on July 9th, 2004 to a group of fellow pilots in the Las Vegas "Hangar of Quiet Birdmen." John Lear is the son of William Lear,...

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