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Pilot Rescued After Military Jet Crashes Near Key West http://www.nbc6.net/news/7305861/detail.html {EXCERPT} NBC6.net, FL - 17 hours ago KEY WEST, Fla. -- A fighter jet pilot was rescued Tuesday after ejecting from his plane as it crashed into the water near a naval...... U.S. and friendly...

I was reading an interesting paper on China's 'naval dilemma' (..basically whether to base it's navy on carriers or submarines), and came across this quote: 'In 1954 alone, in working to master jet aviation off carriers, the U.S. Navy lost nearly eight hundred aircraft' Paper: China's aircraft...

Ambassador Wilson to Out Bush Regime Leaker of CIA Operative (his wife): http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/04/04/int04023.html Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV, Author of "The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity." Check out how Gaffney didn't like...

USS HST acft ```````````` Another hugely busy day, with USS Harry Truman aircraft pounding targets at the ranges. Among the freqs in use: 225.350 227.250 235.550 245.325 255.225

Three men are sitting stiffly side by side on a long commercial flight. After they're airborne and the plane has leveled off, the man in the window seat abruptly says, distinctly and confidently, in a low voice, "General, United States Army, retired. Married, two sons, both surgeons." After a few...

Anybody remember the words to the Ready Room Ditty about the unfortunate Naval Aviator who didn't quite get aboard, but "the Pratt and Whitney Man said it couldn't be the engine 'cause the @#$ @#% things don't QUIT!" etc. etc. What preceeds and what follows? Anybody? Long time ago, I know....

For sending me a copy of Threshold, BA experience. Not a huge fan of the team but these guys are in Phantoms, afterall.. As I told James, brings back many memories of not only the F-4, but also of the many hours a sittin on a Cubi Oclub barstool, watching this movie, again and again... Many...

http://www.saunalahti.fi/porttelo/airburst.jpg No idea on the source and google haven't helped either. Any ideas?

In article , (Jonathan Wilson) wrote: I seem to remember that when BA and Air France were shutting down Concorde, Richard Branson and Virgin wanted to buy up and operate some of them (I think he said at the time that he would operate them even...

Israeli forces strafing Lebanese border areas http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0=AD/viewtopic.php?t=3D31565

James Bamford (author of 'Body of Secrets' which also includes a chapter on the USS Liberty cover-up) interviewed on MSNBC about his new* 'Pretext for War' book as it is about how the war in Iraq was for the Likud in...

In the last days of war with Iraq,US Navy entered the war against us, let me tell you an unbelievable story in which US Fighter ran after me for half an hour but this adventure ended in safety without any noticable accidence. Here is the story: I was patrolling the area with my phantom F-4E...

India retires Cold War spy MiGs The Indian Air Force (IAF) has announced it will retire its entire fleet of MiG 25s, Cold War-era spyplanes, previously shrouded in secrecy. A spokesman said the last of the IAF's surviving MiG-25s will be phased out of service in May. "It will be a nostalgic...

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What type approach did Japanese pilots use for landing on carriers during WWII? Have any other countries since WWII used other than paddles or mirror type approaches? If so what was their technique? WDA end

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Latest C-SPAN 'Washington Journal' call which mentioned Ron Paul: Subject: VIDEO: A Clean Break and A Pretext for War, read James Bamford (Ron Paul mentioned as...

An A-10 Warthog/Thunderbolt was flying very low over the crash site at exactly the moment the explosion, fireball occurred at Shanksville, Pensylvania on 9/11 .. http://i14.tinypic.com/4qspzef.jpg Susan Mcelwain - who lives two miles from the site, knows what she saw - the white plane rocketed...

"the Russian navy has just declassified its records of Cold War UFO sightings. Turns out “50 percent of UFO encounters are connected with oceans. Fifteen more — with lakes. So UFOs tend to stick to the water,” one Russian officer...