I have been doing some research and was amazed at the B-24's accident rate. From April 10, 1944 to August 31,1944, the Replacement Training Unit at Chatham AAF, Savannah, Georgia had 23 accidents. In those accidents, nine of the B-24s were destroyed and there were 54 deaths. The Navy had...

The Lie Factory By Robert Dreyfuss and Jason Vest Kwiatkowski, 43, a now-retired Air Force officer who served in the Pentagon's Near East and South Asia (NESA) unit in the year before the invasion of Iraq, observed how the Pentagon's Iraq war-planning unit manufactured scare stories about Iraq's...

Aircraft performance flight models I'm developing flight models for an upcoming combat flight simulator for next year, to say the leaste it will knock the world back a bit as nothing like this has really been done before. ANY information along the lines of real world flight envelopes for modern...

Misawa air show set for Sunday (EXCERPT) , By Juliana Gittler, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Saturday, September 6, 2003 MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan — About 100,000 people from northern Japan are expected Sunday for the Misawa Air Festival, a Japanese Air Self-Defense Force air show augmented by...

In article , Vivek Thomas wrote: But that's the purpose of a FOD walkdown, where everybody available on the 'base' walks down the entire length of the runway looking for and collecting all the debris that could get...

For those select few interested in the history of aircraft guns, ammunition, installations and combat use 1914-1933, details of a new book can be found from my website. Tony Williams Military gun and ammunition website: http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk Discussion forum at:...

"ArtKramr" wrote in message ... Could ya die laughing.???????? No. Do you wonder why Kerry has to go back to Vietnam to find something he can run on?

National Pest article at http://tinyurl.com/onwo. How realistic is this plan, anyway? Are there any C-130 airframes out there to be had? Or, like John Cleese in the Cheese Shop sketch, is this an act of the purest optimism on the part of the procurement folks to pose the question in the first...

Greetings all, The f-100.org site (www.f-100.org) has been completely updated as we now have over 1350 photographs and over 120 pages of material online. Check it out! Merry Christmas and/or happy holidays! Michael Benolkin

Sehr geehrte Kunden / Dear Sirs, ich wünsche Ihnen allen Frohe Weihnachten und einen guten Rutsch ins neue jahr I wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. außerdem sind noch einige Neuheiten eingetroffen. Smoke Trails

Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems proposals at the below URL. Written in Pentagonese, but still interesting. http://www.darpa.mil/j-ucas/fact_sheet.htm Gene Myers

Friendly Fire Notebook An effort has begun to collect and preserve the details of every friendly fire incident that took or changed the lives of American soldiers. Since the Revolutionary War thousands upon thousands of military personnel have been injured or killed due to mistaken or...

This print shows 33 distinctly different aircraft roundels, starting with those of the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) and Royal Flying Corps (RFC) during WW I, the Royal Air Force (RAF) up to the end of WW II, through the era of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and Royal Canadian Navy (RCN)...

Henderson Field is now renamed to Honiara international airport. But to many, it will always be Henderson Field. -- G Hassenpflug * IJN & JMSDF equipment/history fan

Work is being done on a Gamma Ray Bomb. See: http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1018361,00.html How would a weapon like this compare to the current generation of nukes? Just curious.

A working ABM system! http://www.cheniere.org/books/part1/teslaweapons.htm

When we were stationed at Florennes Belgium a bunch of officers showed up one day. They were a strange lookign lot. Kind of pudgy and out of shape looking.Didn't look very military at all. In discussions they didn't seem to know much about military flying but had higher rank than most of us;...

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 22:14:31 +0100, Jerry wrote: Hi I've seen both the Rafale and typhoon display at the same airshow, Now I may be somewhat biased but I think the Typhoon easily outflew the Rafale, what was your opinion...

Marine team designs and flies homemade, muscle-powered plane (EXCERPT) By Linda McIntosh COMMUNITY NEWS WRITER October 25, 2003 CAMP PENDLETON – Gunnery Sgt. Clark Howard had never piloted a plane. He was afraid of heights. But that did not stop him from entering a flying contest.

Just saw a clip on the TV news that the U.S. Osprey is in CFB Shearwater in Nova Scotia being tested for icing conditions. The interviewed aircrew member stated that the Osprey had problems in the past but this redesigned version was a good aircraft and he had full confidence in it. Shearwater...