Captain Brian Udell, an F-15E fighter pilot will acknowledge the anniversary of that fateful night without celebration because his Weapons Officer, Captain Dennis White, was killed during his ejection - or drowned after parachuting into a heavy sea at night. Udell miraculously survived one of the...

Proud of the heroic performance of England in WW II and their part in stopping and defeating Germany on many fronts. In the end England was part of the ukltimate victory while Germany lay crushed and in smoking ruins. Total failures at war for a second time in the same century. And I think they...

THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS! Soon Bush will have murdered more people than any man known to man. He is a beast who, God says, will one day, 42 months after he declares marshal law, come to his end and no one will help him! Nemo Me Impune Lacessit Ali Andrew X98

I have just recieved the one of the latest books in Osprey's Aircraft of the Aces series, number 59 Israeli Mirage/Nesher Aces. I have only just begun reading it but in the captions and list of aces its states pretty clearly that the number two ace of the Israel Air Force is Avraham Shalmon with...

Further to the question of whether there are "decleration devices" that would enable a crippled aircraft to land safely, this evidently is breaking news: Parachute saves light plane's passengers VANCOUVER/ CKNW (AM980) -- Four people are alive today thanks to a relatively new parachute system for...

The United States is shouldering a greater debt burden today than it did during the Great Depression. This seems a no-brainer. Everyone didn't have their hands out in the 1930's, more people lived on farms, Johnson's Great Society was a socialist dream, etc. The U.S. military was very small...

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...

Air Force getting Fit to Fight (EXCERPT) , By Fred Zimmerman, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Saturday, January 10, 2004 KADENA AIR BASE, Okinawa — Kadena’s 18th Wing airmen — and the wing’s commander — sweated through push-ups, crunches and a 1.5-mile run Thursday as they completed their...

How about "lend lease" convoys to Murmansk during the war. They fistly armed Hitler and after Stalin to destroy Europe... USA is the worst enemy of Europe...

I'm about to mash the big, red button on my desk, deploying my Tex Houstonbot, which will shortly arrive to beat you about the head and shoulders while simultaneously blaring "OFF TOPIC!" in your face. BTW, a young soldier on leave from duty south of the Korean DMZ just won 150 "Very" large. Its...

MARKET GARDEN ALL OVER AGAIN? WHAT THE HELL? The disastrous operation Market Garden was over. The losses were considerable as was our sense of defeat in an operation that promised to shorten the war. Well you can't win 'em all. Upward and onward. On the 6th of October 1944 weeks after Market...

Are thoseC-130 still retained somwhere that libya purchased some years back and held by the US,or sold off.

At the risk of boring everyone to distraction I have a couple of new points to make. I've been watching this evening the repeat Tx on Ch4 of the programme where they took an RAF crew and trained them on a simulator to repeat the Dams' raid. As part of their training they were taken to Canada and...

WARSAW, Poland (AP)--After a protest from French President Jacques Chirac, Poland said Saturday it had been mistaken in reporting that its troops found new French-made anti-aircraft misiles in central Iraq. Chirac swiftly denied selling Iraq weapons in violation of the U.N. weapons embargo imposed...

I am reading a new book on Hess. The author makes a few startling claims. 1. "The fuselage of the Deputy-Fuehrer's Me-110 was half a metre longer than that of a normal production machine, and along its top a thin copper tube ran from the cockpit to an added -on half-metre section midway to the...

Is there any truth to this or does the guy being quoted just not know what he's talking about? http://www.afa.org/magazine/July2004/0704watch.asp "In most USAF aerial combat training, the service has “dumbed down” adversarial equipment and training to simulate what it believed to be

http://www.mcgirt.net/RC/VIDEOS/Giant_B52/B52_flight2.wmv Slightly big file (30 Mb), but I had fun watching it. Would surely have much more if I had one of those. :) Cheers, Vicente

A photo of a crashed Marauder you might have seen before. It's posted on ABPM by netko. -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO (If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.)

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/fa-37-pics.htm More pics from the 7/29/05 movie. Supposedly a stealth Mach 4+ multirole a/c with Mach 3.5 Supercruise and 4000nm range. AI pilot goes crazy starts wasting "friendlies"... two other stealth human pilots sent in to destroy the...

Bush should be arrested, not reelected. "President Bush failed to carry out a direct order from his superior in the Texas Air National Guard in May 1972 to undertake a medical examination that was necessary for him to remain a qualified pilot, according to documents made public...