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...

On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 22:02:04 +0100, Paul J. Adam wrote: If the brits really expected the EF to be a fighter/bomber I doubt they would have put the canards so far forward that they obscure the ground. They prolly would have been farther back, as they are in the rafale. Not that much of...

I am looking for information and pictures about USN A-7 Corsairs stationed at MCAS Iwakuni Japan back in the mid 1980's. Please email me at Thanks Bill Wesley

When I visited Iwakuni in '85 (was stationed there from '73-'76), there was an entire A-7 squadron there, billed as a "spare" for the Midway, or whichever other boat was doing IO duty at the time. Don't recall too much else of what I learned in a 15 minute conversation with one of...

Hi, - I was to an air show awhile back. I was inspecting a Navy A6 Intruder. I caught the exhaust end of the tail pipe and noticed a circumference of mesh "feathers" on the inner ID, that honestly looked like dragonfly wings, gossamer in texture. I wonder what the function of this is, what the...

AA77, the plane that crashed into the Pentagon, FlightData Recorder raw file DOWNLOAD LINK: http://u2r2h-documents.blogspot.com/2007/06/flight-77-flight-datarecorder-download.html American_77.fdr 25,165,994 bytes 6sep06 ======= AMERICAN_77.FDR ========= // L3 Communications, Aviation...

Am I correct in saying that our aircraft do not have helmet mounted sighting system ala the MiG-29? As I understand the MiG system, if the pilot can see the enemy, he can launch and be reasonably sure of a kill. AIUI, our system, especially for I/R AAM, is more limited in off the nose capability. ...

Aboard the Enterprise, landing gently in the dark of night http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=40767 {EXCERPT} Fighter pilots bring birds home following combat missions over Afghanistan, by Jennifer H. Svan, Stars and Stripes Mideast edition, Sunday, October 15, 2006 Jennifer...

Absorbing and Developing Qualified Fighter Pilots: The Role of the Advanced Simulator. RAND. http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2007/RAND_MG597.pdf

Academy holds memorial dedication for Navy's Blue Angels http://www.dcmilitary.com/navy/trident/11_16/local_news/41612-1.html {EXCERPT} U.S. Naval Academy Trident, MD The Naval Academy paid tribute to Blue Angels who died during team flight operations in a ceremony held at the Navy-Marine Corps...

Around summer 1989, a three-foot-long practice bomb was accidentally dislodged from a Navy fighter je that was on a training mission. The wayward ordnance, which was inert, came to rest in the backyard of William Larsen's Middleburg, FL, home. The bomb gouged a foot-deep crater in the earth, but,...

Hi All, Finally got my Action Stations working - all other .exe files but battle.exe ran fine, so I reloaded it from the disk and I'm back in business. Anyway, I'm re-interested in this game and wondering if anyone out there would like to give PBEM a shot? Dan

Actually his name is Abu Hamza al-Muhajir but for all intents and purposes he might as well be Adam Selene.

I normally try to avoid crossposting, but am sending this to three related and relevant newsgroups. (and plan on later sending most of it, to 3 others) Not very long ago on one of these groups, I read an interesting discussion on the Fulton STAR System. Background - the Fulton system was an...

Until some of the BS thins out- P. C. Chisholm CDR, USN(ret.) Old Phart Phormer Phantom, Turkey, Viper, Scooter and Combat Buckeye Phlyer

Admiral Mullen: Attacking Iran ‘Very, Very Destabilizing’ http://america-hijacked.com/2010/01/09/admiral-mullen-attacking-iran-%e2%80%98very-very-destabilizing%e2%80%99/ http://tinyurl.com/AdmiralMullen Additional at http://AMERICA-HIJACKED.COM

While mucking about the web today I chanced upon Stephen Coonts' web site. There's a good page there in which Coonts talks about what it takes to become and succeed as a military aviator. Since RAMN gets occasional questions on this subject, here's a link to his...

"Military action has been in planning since before the wars with Afghanistan and Iraq. This could come in any one of three forms or some combination of them: A US attack by air power alone, a ground invasion as in the 1991 and 2003 attacks on Iraq, or the encouragement of an Israeli attack. The...

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