Not by a long shot. In fact nowhere close. And it is disengenious to say Patton said it and then when challenged say, "Oh not that Patton". There is only ONE PATTON.And another Patton can't be substituted for him. At least not to those who fought in WW II. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS

Has the RAF started operating the Eurofighter at Warton yet? Any photos available?

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This was the second jet airliiner to fly, 13 days after the Comet's first short trial. The prototype flew for several years without serious incident before being scrapped. There's a copy of a 1950 ASME lecture about the design at http://www.avroarrow.org/Jetliner/Jetliner.html it's well worth a...

The Germans in both wars were barbaric, to the allies. In WW2, they were animals, and it didn't take too much allied propaganda to set the scene. You get your History from Hollywood Smollywood. Unfortunately it's just crap. Here is where you tell us that KZ was actually just a modest...

Ted Kennedy. What a hoot! This guy talks a good game but that's about it. He's a documented adulterer, major league alcoholic, and not much of a driver (one of his dates never got home alive). It appears his moral outrage is selective. He now opposes the use of force to remove a dictator (and his...

why does it seem that most modern jet aircraft unstick at around 160kts? Fighters, bombers, transports all of them frequently seem to takeoff at 160kts, is it a tire speed limit kind of thing?

Does anyone know the name of the Air Force logistic or transport squadron, active in the 1960's, whose patch featured an elephant carrying a log with its trunk?

"Tarver Engineering" wrote in : "Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message ... "Tarver Engineering" wrote in news:0JydnYJ4TPELaJPdRVn- : Whom...

Just saw a clip on the TV news that the U.S. Osprey is in CFB Shearwater in Nova Scotia being tested for icing conditions. The interviewed aircrew member stated that the Osprey had problems in the past but this redesigned version was a good aircraft and he had full confidence in it. Shearwater...

I've been back channeling for two days now with friends who are ex-Thunderbirds and professional pilots in other professions. Most of us are puzzled by the report although not at all puzzled by the results of Stricklin's mistake! There's something about this report some of us don't quite get, and...

Smithsonian Air And Space has the P-38 "Glacier Girl" in flight as it's current "cover girl". *Really* great cover shot by John Dibbs, with another fine photo of GG with a P-38J in similar OD/gray coloring in trail. http://www.airspacemag.com/ will have the cover shot and a brief fragment of the...

....my latest "movie" made with the Lo-Mac flight simulator (http://www.lo-mac.com/ ). I'd much rather see them fly in real life, but they're rarer than hen's teeth in the UK these days, so I get my fix this way. http://www.andrew.mcp.dsl.pipex.com/lomac.htm and you want movie5, which comes in...

In rec.food.cooking Tarver Engineering wrote: As opposed to letting the work to Schlumberger; get a clue. The Iraqi people managed their oil refineries quite well before Halliburton arrived on the scene. There are also other companies that could do the same work such as...

Means raining sperm on your head ! Dangerous !

For example the Germans captured many Allied aircraft and test flew and demonstrated them in their own markings. Were any ever shot down? A P-61 shot down a Luftwaffe-flown KG 200 B-17 in early 1945. It had been involved in dropping German agents in American uniforms. The "Böing" was...

Air Force Print News for Jan. 30, 2004 Air Force redesigns Web site http://www.af.mil/stories/story.asp?storyID=123006491 Volunteers take weight off staff http://www.af.mil/stories/story.asp?storyID=123006483

Japanese forces arrive to help (EXCERPT) by Senior Airman James C. Dillard 386th Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs 1/30/2004 - SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFPN) -- Three Japanese air self-defense force C-130Hs arrived here Jan. 30, bringing to fruition an initial deployment plan Japanese forces thought...

Air Force redesigns Web site (EXCERPT) 1/30/2004 - SAN ANTONIO (AFPN) -- The Air Force is unveiling a new look, feel and functionality for its official Web site Feb. 1. “Air Force Link, the service’s Web site, will have a cleaner, more modern look,” said Leslie Benito, chief of news technology...

"Cub Driver" wrote in message ... The benefits of swept wings were understood by German aeronautical engineers as far back as 1936, but as aircraft speeds were much lower than mach 1 at the time, the issue was...