Inside the Air Force Officials: Testing should remain on track MANUFACTURING FLAW FOUND IN STOVL JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER LIFT FAN ROTOR Date: January 4, 2008 Program officials have discovered a manufacturing defect in the lift fan rotor of the short take-off vertical landing F-35 Joint Strike Fighter...

Hello All -- You are invited to drop by Zeno's Warbird Video Drive-In (www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com) and catch our ETO Triple Feature of World War II aviation films for free online video viewing. * This month "At the Matinee," we're showing "The Fight for the Sky," an action packed Drive-In...

Navy Times September 11, 2006 More than a wingman: Top Gun founder was a pioneer By Robert F. Dorr When retired Capt. Frank W. Ault died Aug. 20 in Arlington, Va., the Navy lost a pioneer who changed the way we operate in air and space. The nation lost a hero.

Please Go to : http://www.angelfire.com/wa/drdan71/ You will find an aerial photo as a tribute by Baker Company of the last Infantry Battalion in Iraq to the victims of 9-11 and the fallen heroes of the US military who died defending US and avenging the deaths of the victims of the twin tower...

I just sent this to Fox News: Elenor Clift was just interviewed on Fox News Channel (by Laurie Due) concerning the ransom that may have been paid for the Italian journalist’s release by the Italian government. At the very end of the interview, Clift contended that a “trigger happy American...

http://www.washtimes.com/world/20060213-112135-3422r.htm Marines have new devices, goals By David Axe THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published February 14, 2006 AL ASAD, Iraq -- Marine Corps aviators at this sprawling air base in western Anbar province are adapting Cold War airplanes and...

The Wright stuff: Aviators commemorate first military flight http://www4.army.mil/news/article.php?story=6996 {EXCERPT} United States Army (press release) - 51 minutes ago the Army Aviation Association of America, was held March 2 at the Roadrunner Community Center to commemorate the 95th...

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http://dallas.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2004/07/05/daily3.html Gee, if only we had a fighter aircraft with the range, speed and S/VTOL abilities of the V-22 that could deploy from the same ships to replace the Harrier and escort the Osprey. It would be nice if it were stealthy and supersonic...

"Newsnet" wrote in message ... It appears he is listed on the Military.com site. This however does not confirm his service. Very little, if any info, on the Military.com site. A picture of the supposed BG as a Col. in a...

Yeah Way wrote in : Ooops! Who's got the net. We've got ourselves a live one here. And-uh as is usual it posts its crap by the dumpster load. IBM

http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htlead/20100202.aspx Women Take Command At Sea February 2, 2010: In the mid 1970s, the U.S. Navy began letting women into Annapolis (the Naval Academy) and flight school. Some 35 years later we have women commanding combat aircraft squadrons, cruisers,...

Year 2010. President Hillary Clinton names CVN-78 after William J. Clinton. Year 2025. President Chelsea Clinton names CVN-85 after Hillary R. Clinton.

For those interested, this link shows a few very nice near-final snaps of VF-31's Tomcats. http://www.ukar.co.uk/cgi-bin/ukarboard/ikonboard.cgi?s=3071869ad4a5ab7c0c2f62b80adb583d;act=ST;f=9;t=21776 MW

Limeys, Aussies, Kiwis and Canadians If you are looking for mates from an old unit that you served with then take a minute to check out http://www.ComradesandColleagues.com it's genuinely free to see if your old friends are registered and only takes a minute, so it's worth a look. (Sorry no U.S....

Photos of that ill-fated squadron on June 4, 1942 http://www.centuryinter.net/midway/Carrier_Squadrons/Torpedo_Eight/in_color.html#LCDR%20John%20C.%20Waldron

See: http://www.spacewar.com/reports/New_Raytheon_Built_Joint_Standoff_Weapon_Will_Hit_Moving_Maritime_Targets_999.html

Does anyone have any knowledge (general or otherwise) as to when the USN changed its policy regarding authorizing surface warfare officers to command the large amphib decks (the LPHs/LHAs/LHDs) ?? I'm thinking it didn't happen until after the 1970s. TIA. MW

Astronaut charged with kidnap attempt By MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. - A NASA astronaut charged with attempting to kidnap a romantic rival in a love triangle with another astronaut was allowed to go free on bail Tuesday on the condition that she not contact the alleged...

Nobuyoshi Koremoto, an ex-skipper of JDS Amatsukaze that participated in RIMPAC 1980, wrote in the August 2010 issue of the Ship of the World that in the 1980 exercise a flight of Australian A-4G Skyhawks from HMAS Melbourne playing an 'Orange' force carrier attacked USS Constellation, which was...