I would like to extend to my many friends throughout the world a very Merry Christmas and the sincere wish that you all have a peaceful, healthy, and prosperous new year. Dudley Henriques International Fighter Pilots Fellowship Commercial Pilot/CFI Retired

Giving thanks this Christmas, by Phill Coleman (First published on 19 December 2000) Three major wars ago American troops on the field did not enjoy their Holidays. During the last Christmas year of WW2 the German Army attacked on a huge front with such force many believed the balance of victory...

wrote in message ... You blithering idiots! You re-elected that imbecile George Bush as your President. He's a complete moron and so are most of you! - Don't you care what the rest of the world thinks of...

THE SON OF MAN / / Anybody who supports George W. Bush is my ENEMY. George W. Bush committed 9/11 with his buddy, General Ahmad who funded the mastermind ring leader. That's according to the FBI. Any bu****e who gets in my way, who says that isn't the case, I WILL KILL. \ \

Thought this might be of interest to some: NNS041213-06. Oriskany Starts Final Journey From Naval Sea Systems Command Public Affairs WASHINGTON (NNS) -- A Navy contractor will commence towing ex-Oriskany from Corpus Christi, Texas, to Pensacola, Fla., in December, in preparation as the Navy's...

NAVAL STATION NORFOLK TO RE-OPEN GATE 2 Traffic patterns on Hampton Blvd. remain the same NORFOLK, Va. – Naval Station Norfolk will re-open Gate 2 on Thursday, Dec. 9 at 5 a.m. after a 5-month renovation. Present traffic patterns will remain in effect with the following changes: Gate 1 will...

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In August, while cataloging the debris field around the wreck of a Japanese midget submarine, HURL submarine pilot Terry Kerby ran across the inverted keel of a "flying boat" A Martin JRM-1 Mars named "Marshall Mars" In the spring of 1950, during a test flight off of Diamond Head, one...

Selling some of my books. If interested in anything below then email me at (WWII): ---------------------- US Navy and Marine Corps Fighters, William Green and Gordon Swanborough Japanese Army Fighters, William Green and Gordon Swanborough Fires on the Plain, Shohei Ooka (Jap...

here in norfolk at hc-2 we have h-3's...they're phasing them out, supposedly within the next year or so

Restored military seaplane ready for surfing duty http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20041215-0003-ca-surfingsafaris.html {EXCERPT} San Diego Union Tribune, CA - 3 hours ago into a woodie station wagon on a Pacific Coast Highway hunt for the perfect wave, elite surfers can now spy surf...

The cover of current issue of The Hook shows four LSOs, two of whom are using their stopwatches. For what part of the landing are they starting and stopping their watches?

They can fly underwater and suddenly come out of the water and bomb your head! Dangerous!

Sorry, but something must be wrong with my Google server, it cannot link me to the previous messages, so I had to answer this way. 1. The AGM-62 Walleye is a TV-guided glide bomb from the Vietnam era. The AGM-65 Maverick is a powered weapon (has a motor) and is more recent technology.

Sorry, but something must be wrong with my Google server, it cannot link me to the previous messages, so I had to answer this way. 1. The AGM-62 Walleye is a TV-guided glide bomb from the Vietnam era. The AGM-65 Maverick is a powered weapon (has a motor) and is more recent technology.

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...

The new F-18 two seater (is it 'E' or 'F'??) was the topic of conversation last evening and we got to wondering if the backseater was a Naval Aviator or a Naval Aviation Officer. The backseater of the old F4 didn't have controls. I don't think the F-14 did either. What about the new F-18...

Anyone familiar with NAS Miami during WWII? I am trying to determine a naval location reference NAS Miami as "Pt. Affirm" I can't find it on the net. Not sure if it is merely a local naval aviation reference point, a swallowed up town, or a point of land. Surely there are still some naval...

Hallo, i know that French;Italian and Japanese airplanes prior and in WW2 had an opostite throttlemovement than British;American and German airplanes. I mean that to increase power you had to pull the Throttle backwards and not forward. Now i asumed that after WW2 with the availability of surplus...

Group... While stuck in traffic, bad traffic, I began wondering: how difficult would it be to intercept an ICBM lifting off out of somewhere like North Korea? Seems like it would be an 'easy' target: slow, going up, not evading. Or, would it be more effective to have a cruiser wait off shore to...