BOEING CO. won a $241.8 million contract to continue work on the ballistic missile-hunting Airborne Laser, a modified 747, the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency said on Monday. The contract, which runs through June 30, 2005, modifies an earlier agreement to account for cost adjustments to the...

In the name of the Executioner of Antichrist Saturday, May 29, 2004 "Pigs, followed only by Pigs, are..." Peace, What are we to expect next from that animal in Crawford Texas? The Baath party has always been an arm of American terrorism in Iraq. To

If you were going to name a couple of the greatest writers about military aviation, who would they be? I want personal recollections, not history. I'd like names that large numbers of people would recognize. Antoine de St Exupery? (Can't stand him, personally, but he seems beloved) Ernest Gahn?...

It's been there for over a year. Drive by going up Rancho Drive to get a good view of it. You can't miss it. It has a red stars on the tail, fuselage and wings. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website...

OK, I was browsing the Internet Movie Database, checking out disaster flicks, after seeing "Airport 1975" on American Movie Classics the other day. (It had some great flying and sequences that stood up well.) So I found a movie called "SST: Death Flight" that I think I remember seeing some...

Has the RAF confirmed that their T.1 and F.1 Typhoons are to be supplied without the mauser gun capabilities? According to Typhoon's entry on RAF's website there doesn't seem to have mention of a 27mm mauser on the fighter http://www.raf.mod.uk/equipment/typhoon.html Smart move for an aircraft...

Hey all, I had a total loss of my old email a while back. Someone here who flys warbirds emailed me that they could get me some live P47 sound. A fly by, takeoff from downrange a bit, internal sound in level and climbing and maneuvering flight, etc. I'm sorry I have lost and forgotten the name,...

Simple. Uncertainty raises prices. War is uncertain.so oil prices shot up. Bush knew that before he even got into office which is why he(he is in the oil business) and Dick Halliburton Cheney decided on the war..Those of you who voted for Bush should think of that as the body bags come home.

Edmonton - Anne McLellan has ministerial titles in front of her name - Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Safety. Before these jobs, she was minister of natural resources, minister of health and minister of justice, to say nothing of being Alberta's political minister in...

You are a reckless liar promoting murder. "Aerophotos" wrote in message ... -- News reports that Australian troops are relieved and happy that they can now prepare to kill/murder and maim iraqi people.. god ...how fun that must be we...

Al Gore is a psychotic, raving lunatic with delusions of grandeur & a worsening case of megalomania. If he were anything but a damn, dirty, deceitful, dumb Democrat, he would have been put in a padded room 10 years ago. Be afraid, be very afraid. Tetherhorne P. Flutterblast

EPA Fines Army Over Nerve Gas Release SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Army and a contractor were fined nearly $52,000 for releasing a deadly chemical weapon on a wildlife sanctuary in the Pacific Ocean, federal environmental officials announced Wednesday. An unknown quantity of VX nerve agent was...

Radar sale to China stopped The Bush administration blocked the sale of an advanced radar system to China and might purchase at least one of the stealth aircraft-detecting systems to offset the loss, U.S. and European officials said. at http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040525-113028-4180r.htm

Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS) at http://www.washtimes.com/culture/20040527-110406-7882r.htm

Francis Dean in America's Hundred Thousand has a table of the 8 main WWII fighter types, by numbers produced and I am wondering about the differences he has with the USAAF Statistical digest. The big difference is the P-40 production June to August 1942, Dean says 560 the Digest says 1,158. As a...

From: Nomen Nescio A TRUE AMERICAN wrote: there are reports al qaeda is planning something significant this summmer so make a choice torture people in a iraq and afghanistan to get enough information to prevent a large number of americans being murdered and maimed

On Wed, 19 May 2004 03:00:27 GMT, Werner Hetzner wrote: Atrocities in Iraq: 'I killed innocent people for our government' By Paul Rockwell Sacramento Bee --- Innocent of what? Kill them all, city after city, village after village, cell after cell...

First fully modernised Orion returned at Valkenburg VALKENBURG / THE NETHERLANDS - This morning around 10:30am the first completely modernised Lockheed P-3C Orion returned at RNLNAS Valkenburg. The aircraft departed to the United States on 7 July 2002. There all tactical equipment was removed from...

Air Force Print News for May 26, 2004 Today's stories include: Crossing lines (Stand-alone photo) http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123007815 Rumsfeld defers tanker lease decision

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