Air Force Print News for August 4, 2003 Americans bring peace, stability to Afghanistan http://www.af.mil/stories/story.asp?storyID=123005360 Airman swaps stripes for wings http://www.af.mil/stories/story.asp?storyID=123005358

How is aircraft maintenance organized? Is you average mechanic assigned to a plane or to a subsystem? In other words, is the mechanic assigned to Airplane #1234, or to "left wing hydraulics"? -Thanks

Why are the F-14 squadrons currently removing the plate covering the refueling probe? I'm assuming they're ripping off in the slipstream or something, but wouldn't it make more sense, since they're employed by the Federal Gov't., to have some type of really expensive beefing-up kit to bolt them on...

From a report in a Japanese newspaper. Dave TOKYO (Aug. 6) - North Korea is in talks to export its Taepodong 2 long-range ballistic missile to Iran and to jointly develop nuclear warheads with Tehran, a Japanese newspaper reported on Wednesday. The conservative Sankei Shimbun, quoting military...

Printed in July 11 SF Chronicle letters to the editor, this punk seems to want our troops to be killed. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/07 /11/ED272984.DTL Editor -- The constant loss of U.S. soldiers in Iraq -- after the war is "won" -- is a tragedy....

Can anyone help me with the history of the de Havilland Vampire service record with the Irish Air Corps? Any links to good websites or decent reference books about the whole Irish military or even just the Air Corps are much appreciated. I'm more interested in the period from 1935-1965. I've seen...

Hi guys, does anyone of you know any military surplus store in Manhattan or Washington DC? The kind of stuff I'm looking for is basically military- theme T-shirts. I'll be next month in both cities (I'm from Europe) and I won't have a car. Therefore, they should be reachable by...

Hi all, I know this is probably inappropriate for this group, but I saw a script for sale on one of the google groups and it had a story of Mexican Pilots of WWII. Anyone heard anything about these guys? Are they for real? Here's what I copied: LATINO SCREENPLAY FOR SALE ABOUT WWII...

Remember the famous World War 2 raid when those B-24 bombers were placed on the USS Hornet and sent to bomb Japan ? I just got done reading that in 1965 the United States landed C-130 Herculees planes on a US aircraft carrier. So that got me thinking. I'm not a Navy man or Air Force man, so...

There was a report on a broadcast national news network recently to the effect that two German nationals, brother and sister, have come forth to identify themselves as illegitimate progeny of Charles Lindbergh. Allegedly, they were fathered by the presumably happily-married Lindbergh during...

Hello! I'm a little 'new' around here. My name is Jim D. I'm,from Allentown,Pa. I am a former US Airman. (1960-64) Anyway… I wanted to share this bit of info with you. I was at Beale AFB in 1962, when the motion picture, "A Gathering of Eagles" was being filmed. Here's my new Web-page on all of of...

I'm sorry if this is considered SPAM, but with the vets and aviation enthusiasts here I thought some of you might appreciate this heads up. This fall a company here in the US will begin carrying a line of reproductions of vintage US flight jackets from the 40s and 50s. If you're...

"Paul Ely" wrote: "transputer" wrote in message ... WASHINGTON - The Pentagon (news - web sites) is setting up a stock-market style system in which investors would bet on terror attacks,...

In a recent post having to do with F4 radar you commented about a"good GIB" raised a question that I hadn't thought about before.In Thailand did you have any control who was in your WSO like the Weasels? Or was it a matter of just seeing who was on the flight schedule with you? I haven't found...

Hiya was just browsing through my copies of WAPJ and reading Vol 42's article about the Russian Forces in Chechnya when I came across a piece which claimed the PGM's employed in that conflict had a poor success rate due to the high altitude causing missile/bomb control surfaces to freeze up and...

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Israel and BOEING CO. are in talks to find a way for Israel to lease tankers for refueling air force jets and discussing ideas for homeland security products, Boeing executives said. Boeing Integrated Defence Systems president and chief executive James Albaugh told reporters in Tel Aviv the sides...

Air Force Print News for August 7, 2003 Lightning strikes tanker -- twice http://www.af.mil/stories/story.asp?storyID=123005375 Ganci AB supports flood of soldiers http://www.af.mil/stories/story.asp?storyID=123005381

August issue of Airman now available (EXCERPT) SAN ANTONIO (AFPN) --Learn about Air Force "aces," snipers at Bashur Airfield, the upcoming Air Force Academy football season and road maintenance airmen in a Washington national forest. These features and more highlight the August issue of Airman...

Air Force Print News for August 6, 2003 Air Force unveils new uniform plan http://www.af.mil/stories/story.asp?storyID=123005370 Airmen get peek at new uniform http://www.af.mil/stories/story.asp?storyID=123005369