The below link is to the music video "Good Good America" by Cpl, John Preston and L.Cpl. Nick Hoffmann, 2nd Batt., 7th Marines, somewhere in western Iraq. The duo created the video because they were frustrated with the news media's narrow focus on US casualties to the exclusion of the broader...

44,000 ft altitude means only about 1/7 of the atmospheric pressure at sea level. So it's hard to believe a person could maintain consciousness without oxygen pressure equipment to get to 49,500 feet. With half the atmosphere below 18,000 feet the U. S. military requires oxygen masks above 15,000...

While at the Wright Memorial earlier this week, I picked up a NASA pamphlet entitled _Celebrating a Century of Flight_. On page 13 there's a picture of Jackie Cochran with a caption quoting her as saying, about the WASPS, "We landed planes like the Hurricane and the Spitfire in fields where I...

LUNCH WITH SS STURMGRUPENNFUHRER OTTO SKORZENY I was in Madrid in 1970 on business shooting TV commercials for the Eastman Kodak Company. This was a sunny lazy Sunday at the Ritz hotel. I was nursing the last of my excellent room service coffee when the phone rang. "Ola Artur. Have lunch with us...

This week in naval, aviation history, By Bill Swanson (EXCERPT) SENIOR WRITER Dec. 11, 1941: John G. Magee Jr., a 19-year-old American serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force, is killed when his Spitfire collides with a trainer flown, By a student, near Roxholm, England. He left behind a poem...

Squadron formed to test Osprey for combat readiness (EXCERPT), by Otto Kreisher COPLEY NEWS SERVICE August 29, 2003 WASHINGTON – The Marine Corps' prolonged struggle to deploy the V-22 Osprey gained ground yesterday with the formation of a squadron that will try to prove the accident-plagued...

"John Mullen" wrote: "Ö§âmâ ßíñ Këñoßí" wrote in message ... Throw in a killfile rule based around U$ in the heading and you don't see 90% of the crap that worthless **** posts anyway.

Inspections are finding more of them every day... http://www.tech-sol.net/humor/funphoto97.htm -Jeff B. yeff at erols dot com

(ArtKramr) wrote: Honor to those who came forward... GB wrote: ...and were lucky enough to get a slot as aircrew in a B-26? Mind you if they were conscripted and assigned to a grunt unit and were unlucky enough in their last few seconds of life to watch the surf roll their...

The U.S. Air Force has not changed its plan to purchase 1,763 LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP. F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets, a U.S. Department of Defense official said. "Right now the Air Force has not changed their numbers," said Steven Enewald, director of the F-35 program for the Department of Defense at...

looks like the USAF is considering jamming a reactor into one of their UAVS http://popularmechanics.com/science/aviation/2004/5/atomic_wings/index.phtml Think they'll resurect the "glow-in-the-dark" brigade too?

The war is over, and Irak is safer than never....

Another interesting tidbit about the Vigilante is that the AF considered putting it back into production for use as an interceptor.

Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world. — Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden http://www.skygod.com/quotes/

(Kevin Brooks) wrote in message ... "TJ" wrote in message ... The following links show the first flight of the FC-1 yesterday. The first ...

a few other interesting tidbits in here as well. notably, the implication that china's recent forays are having a motivating influence on congress. (finally:)) http://www.spacedaily.com/news/beyondleo-03a.html Washington - Oct 29, 2003 A report by Space Lift Washington and published by NASA Watch...

I buy all types of patches. I am interested in Military, Police (local and federal), and Fire Patches. Will also consider other types. Email me at Thanks Jim

"Bill Shatzer" wrote in message ... On 7 Mar 2004, Hal Lillywhite wrote: Bill Shatzer wrote in message ... ...

From: Cub Driver lo ed flying to Australia in one of them. I can look this up in Bloody Shambles if you like. I just bought this two-volume set (and damned pricey at 29.95 pounds per volume) with high hopes. Haven't begun on it yet, but noting your comment above I turned to the description of...

On C-130s painted in camoflauge they used to leave a panel bare on each side of the vertical stab. There was a circle in the middle that was painted. What was the purpose of doing this? Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired