Who needs "high tech" when a bag of LARD will do the trick! *** JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A prominent Israeli rabbi has proposed hanging bags of pig fat in buses to deter Muslim suicide bombers who may want to avoid contact with an "unclean" animal, an Israeli official said on Thursday.

Hi All I was reading the excellent magazine Air Forces Monthly, and saw a picture of a Raptor F-22 Flying over Edwards AFB, and it appears to have what I previously played a joke about on April 1st - its got Smurfs -No really!!, take a look...

http://www.startribune.com/stories/1631/4837686.html

http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://www.kmweg.de/english/index.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3DKMW,%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DG Bradley is a P.O.S. by comparison. Rob

Kerry had a total of four months experience commanding a patrol boat as part of the brown water navy in Vietnam thirty years ago. Bush has over two and a half years (and counting) experience commanding the most lethal military force ever seen in the history of man! So who actually has the most...

Can anyone tell me how I can find out where the nearest DC-3 to me is located? I live near Eglin AFB, in Florida (about 40 miles east of Pensacola). I need to gather some information on its structure. TIA. Ed "If an enemy power is bent on conquering you, and proposed to turn all of his resources to...

http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123007285 Lockheed Martin originally contracted with the U.S. Marine Corps to build the STOVL variant of the F-35 to replace the aging AV-8B Harrier. The Air Force will take over the program in June, as part of the service’s commitment to improving...

Someone tried to insult me by saying I was in the same class as Henriques. I am proud to be in his class. It is a very small class of a select chosen few. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

The war was lost in 1954 when the French were removed from Indochina before it was renamed Vietnam. That was the beingging of a very sad and sorry end which was completed in 1975. After spending $163bn in 17yrs what did the US achieve one asks? Anything of benefit? Id be hard pressed to name one...

I found this earlier today, it may not be new to yourselves - but the thought of some pigeon tapping away frantically inside a speeding missile had me in stiches! http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m3161/24_47/57843983/p1/article.jhtml Hope it tickles something, Jim Doyle

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....

Russia is actually much closer to developing an effective anti-ballistic missile defense system than the United States. Russia's latest S-400 surface-to-air missile system is currently in its final stage of testing and is due to enter service in 2001-2002. The S-400 is the only SAM system in the...

Ok, here goes... About 2 years ago I had a chance to buy some small radial engines at a car show, there were perhaps 25-36 inches accross, I cant remeber, I had a chance to buy em at $40 each and there were 10 or so in various states of disrepair, but since I had spent all my money alloted by...

Capt Al Haynes of United Flight 233 has a daughter who needs a bone marrow transplant to save her life. She must raise 250,000 dollars to cover the costs. See http://www.friendsoflaurie.com for details. Capt Haynes was chief pilot of the DC10 that lost all its hydraulics and thus the flight...

On going discussion we are having....only one black and white picture shows landing and it is suspect. Did this late WWII German fighter fly or was it even built? TIA,

Happy Veterans Day to all of those who served this country(USA) so we can enjoy our life, liberty and pursuit of happiness....May God Bless you all.

On this Veteran's Day think once more of our absent friends who will sleep forever in foreign soil. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

I was at a speech last week given by an ex-pilot who talked about how he went supersonic in a Navy jet (their first jet that could break the sound barrier). The aircraft would need to be put into a dive though...approaching MACH 1 the plane would shake like crazy with the helmet banging against the...

I just received the North Island Weekender, newspaper North Vancouver Island, and it contains a story honouring a 82 year young WWII Veteran, former RCAF pilot Ken Moore, recognized for helping sink two German submarines within 22 minutes on June 7, 1944 in a B24 Liberator. He was with 224...

I read this at newsmax.com "The Russian-made MiG-25 Foxbat being recovered by U.S. Air Force troops in the photos is an advanced reconnaissance version never before seen in the West and is equipped with sophisticated electronic warfare devices." "The recovery of the advanced MiG fighter is...