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DefenseDaily Navy Grounds 104 Hornets To Inspect For Airframe Cracking As a result of an emerging safety of flight issue with legacy Boeing F/A-18A-D Hornets, the Navy is grounding 104 of the aircraft after inspections revealed that cracking has occurred earlier than predicted in some airframes,...

I am reading a book entitled "October Fury" by CAPT Peter A. Huchthausen, USN (Ret.). In October, 1962 he was a JO stationed aboard USS BLANDY (DD-943), part of Task Group Alpha built around USS RANDOLPH (CVS-15). He participated, up close and personal, in the Cuban Missle Crisis. He later went...

Saturday, July 1, 2006 Wallpaper of the month - July, 2006 Desktop Wallpaper - "Heritage Flight over Lady Liberty". A P-51 Mustang, flown by Jim Beasley; an F-16 Fighting Falcon, flown by Maj. Dax Cornelius from Hill Air Force Base, Utah; an F-15 Eagle, flown by Capt. Tony Bierenkoven from Eglin...

Could someone help me with the general-purpose stencil font that is used by the US military as stenciling on aircraft? Erik Peter Meijer -- "I'd like to die in my sleep like my grandfather........... not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car."

I dought there are only SAP warheads in use. But in a cut of a HY2 Missile the warhead was a hollow charge and some missiles like the Hsiung Feng (Taiwan) use EFP's. The HF is a Gabriel like missile and the israeli was infolved into the development of this missile. Can anyone post a link to a...

I have found a reference to a photo that states it is a curtiss flying boat equipped with a colt machine gun, 1915. Curtiss delivered flying boats to Russia in this period and Russia was also purchasing colt mgs. Does anyone know of any pics with the colt machine guns placed on early curtiss...

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Just started re-reading Coont's Flight of the Intruder, and his description of the capabilities of the terrain radar is interesting. Early in the book he describes a training flight through canyons and valleys in IMC, using the radar for avoidance. I'm curious what the BN would actually see in...

Vietnam Air Losses: USAF, Navy, and Marine Corps Fixed-Wing Aircraft Losses in SE Asia 1961-1973 by Authors: Chris Hobson I just found this book available from several sources and seems highly recommended and have ordered it to perhaps answer my question on Nov 21,22, or 23 1971 fixed wing...

WDAllen- LSO, "Looked good when he went by me!" Pilot, "Any landing's a good landing if you can walk way from it! Right CAG?" BRBR Or " a peek is worth a thousand scans" "never pass up perfectly good wires"

Does anyone have an idea what this string of subject mean? I have seen them on several NGs I visit and for the sake of me cannot decipher them. TIA Ray Austin, TX ===

TOKYO — North Korea may fire a long-range ballistic missile toward Hawaii in early July, a Japanese news report said Thursday, as Russia and China urged the regime to return to international disarmament talks on its rogue nuclear program. The missile, believed to be a Taepodong-2 with a range of...

This can be a problem. I get calls from friends talking about how the wife or husband tends to be too much into small problems, that why can't they see the "big picture"? Sometimes you do not want all the details when you call back home. The other problem is that when someone dies, the fellows...

On Mar 23, 9:01*am, Jeff Crowell wrote: Alexander wrote: ...Japanese aircraft did a real job at Pearl harbor on both anchored ships and fast moving destroyers in the outer harbor at Pearl Harbor. Keith Willshaw wrote: List of fast moving...

That's right..He got through the gate at Royal Navy base Portsmouth England and took a liberty launch out to the Truman . Then wandered around the HST for two hours..until he was caught. he was then turned over to British authorites..read on... Serial intruder exposes shoddy security {Story is...

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Senator Rockofeller please go away......

Question: You are forced to ditch in a a/c with fixed landing gear. The sea is calm and search and rescue are aware of your situation and location. How do you put 'her' down? Mike