Setting the gyros would be the difficult part. The V-1 took quite a while to set and ship's movement would cause a real problem. v/r Gordon ====(A+C==== USN SAR Aircrew "Got anything on your radar, SENSO?" "Nothing but my forehead, sir."

Many years back I recall a Sea Harrier landing on a container ship or such rather than ditch in the sea. There was a two page spread about it in the magazine "Air Pictorial" a few weeks after the incident. This was in the late 1980's. Of course I do know (and have seen the photos) of the 1960's...

This very attractive, limited edition print shows 33 distinctly different aircraft roundels, starting with those of the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) and Royal Flying Corps (RFC) during WW I, the Royal Air Force (RAF) up to the end of WW II, through the era of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF)...

I saw this photo of a military helicopter in a low. fast, steep turn over a body of water that looked very cool. I thought I saved it, but now I can't find it. I am hoping some one here can help. -- Chris Woodhouse Oklahoma City "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little...

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The Air Force took away at least $1 billion worth of rocket contracts Thursday and suspended the aerospace giant from future rocket work. ..... Air Force Undersecretary Peter B. Teets called the number of Lockheed documents in Boeing's possession -- more than 25,000 pages --...

Interesting. ANyone care to guess what kind of aircraft were all "bombed-up"? lol. http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=792292003

I put together a video in support of our troops. It was compiled from images and video from television and the internet. Title: "Support Our Troops" http://www.dave911.com/ (The streams and the downloads are on the front page) It looks a LOT better at the higher bit rates. Dave

huuto wrote in message ... Erosion of U.S. Industrial Base Is Troubling Growing dependence on foreign suppliers should concern policy makers by Sheila R. Ronis The U.S. industrial base is eroding, and this situation...

Mid 50's. P2Vs, (Two turning, none burning). Numerous occasions leaving propwash in water. Mining run exercise -- altitude maybe 5 feet. Three planes in tight formation. Had to go up to get a wing down to spread out a bit. No biggie. Navy seems to like water. Air Force jets looking for...

After winning the $18.9-billion contract to build the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. in the summer of 2002 placed a $12.3-million order with Ingersoll Milling Machine Co. for custom-made machine tools to produce parts for the stealthy tactical aircraft. As of April of...

If I met two soldiers, one had the Bronze Star but no CIB or battle stars, the other had the Combat Infantry Badge but no Bronze Star, I would immediaetly give the higher respect to the man with the CIB. Men who have been in battle vvould always have higher place of honor than those who have never...

"Charles Talleyrand" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... My question is this: Which fighter had the clearest advantage over it's the other fighters of it's time frame? For example, the Fokker Eindekker would clearly lose to an F-14. ...

"JDupre5762" wrote in message ... Did the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force and the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force operate any of the same make of aircraft? It seems to me that that at least with some combat aircraft the...

In article , says... Some American hero. When Lindbergh died in Hawaii did he consider the people there with any more maturity than when he made his racist comments or did he just consider them his coolies ? If there's a...

Aleutian air war only WWII fight waged on North American soil (EXCERPT) , By Wayne Specht, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Monday, July 28, 2003 Primarily an air war, the Aleutian Campaign was the only World War II campaign fought on North American soil. It ended with the reoccupation of...

"Ken Duffey" wrote in message ... If anyone is interested........ I have just added a page of photos to my Flankers website showing the new Su-27SK(Upgraded)variant - plus a few new photos of the Su-27KUB ...

(JDupre5762) wrote in message ... I was looking on this site about an upcoming airshow, Westfield Airshow In the list of featured performers they list an A35 Vengeance! Does anyone know of one flying? Never heard of...

There was some cold war era movie that starred Rock Hudson as the President about 25 years ago. I can't remember the name, but I think it might have been called World War 3. There was one scene in the movie where they talked about how as tensions had risen, the Soviets had sent their Backfire...

Can anybody help me locate a photo or drawing of a driftmeter used on a B-24? I did some Google searches but couldn' t locate a photo or drawing. Thanks. Ed "Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address for...