Do you think that above is somehow due to that is discussed below? Michael from "Notes from a Big Country" by Bill Bryson There are idiots in every country, Michael, obviously. In my son's elementary class, there are 22 kids; fifteen of them were tested for the GATE program and

Antonov cockpit: http://www.airliners.net/open.file/391247/L/ Galaxy cockpit: http://www.airliners.net/open.file/498959/L/ Aside from a truck parked on Galaxys hood, what is the major design philosophy difference between American and Russian cockpit layout? Russian

Where to start? "Tonight, I am instructing the leaders of the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the Homeland Security and the Department of Defense to develop a Terrorist Threat Integration Center, to merge and analyze all threat information in a single location. Our government must have the very best...

You are a reckless liar promoting murder. "Aerophotos" wrote in message ... -- News reports that Australian troops are relieved and happy that they can now prepare to kill/murder and maim iraqi people.. god ...how fun that must be we...

Leading the day to day operations of terrorist/suicide bombing group Hamas is getting to be a pretty scary job. Ironic, huh? Dave GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (April 17) - Israel assassinated Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi in a missile strike on his car Saturday, part of its declared campaign to wipe...

the "Hopeless Diamond" version: http://www.f-117a.com/images/XST/hdiamond1.gif Looks much different from the designs the Germans came up with for their MBB Lampyridae (Firefly)... independently, of course. The German design was much better at radar defraction and was from the onset designed as an...

I'll repeat this every so often, probly once a week for a while. 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...

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The B-26 Martin Marauder needed power poured on to execute the flareout. If that was not done, the aicraft would not pull up and just plow into the ground. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website...

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/28/opinion/28BROO.html (quoting) U.S. Air Force would lease 100 refueling tankers, modified Boeing 767's, from an entity controlled by the Boeing Corporation. This whole mess started because the Air Force can't pay for new tankers up front, so it tried to push back...

Who knows of a good reference about the invasion of Russia through Vladivostok by us Americans while the British and another American force invaded through Murmansk to support the White Russians? I understand the Valdivostok force moved west crossing almost half of Siberia in chasing...

A Soldier's Burial by George S. Patton Not midst the chanting of the Requiem Hymn, Nor with the solemn ritual of prayer,

Tim Walters wrote: Hello, I've just read in one of the French ngs that the French consider Concorde to have been the product of Gallic genius, with a small contribution from the Brits. Does anyone here happen to know how much (in terms of ideas, inventions, and engineering) each nation ...

Does it move when say when the pilot wants to climb, or does it have pressure sensors on a rigid stick so the stick can inform the computers the pilots hand is pressing on the front of the stick and he wants the F-16 to climb? Christopher +++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Kites rise highest against the...

My gf has a kid who's an airplane nut. He just enrolled in JROTC in his high school and is suddenly motivated about school. He had a broken arm (skater d00d) that was repaired with the usual metal plates, which he still has. Should this impact his flight eligibility? She's got great...

On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Charles Talleyrand wrote: Imagine four your favorite combat aircraft of 1963 going up against four modern F/A-18s in a BVR engagement. Suppose that the 1963 pilots were smart and willing to employ the best tactics available. Even so we suppose the F-18s win almost every...

On this day in 1944 the Germans began shelling theWirtz-Bastogne crossroad in an attempt to push the 101st Airborne out of the defense of Bastogne. They failed. .Temperature went down to below freezing in the bitter cold of that Belgian winter and the 101st was down to eating K rations. Those...

I am glad someone is doing some research in this area as early operations have long been ignored. I think the contribution of P-39's in holding the line early in the war has long been ignored. I am not sure what you want with your question. Obviously the reports are taken from different points of...

Army ends 20-year helicopter program Canceled Comanche program will cost Army at least $10 billion Monday, February 23, 2004 Posted: 1:50 PM EST (1850 GMT) WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Army has decided to cancel its Comanche helicopter program, a multibillion-dollar project to build a new-generation...

note: I posted this to sci.military.naval, and then realized it might have more to do with rec.aviation.military! I hope I will get a chance to complete the translation of part of an interesting article over the weekend, here is the gist. I wonder if anyone knows where to get good refs for the...