"Newsnet" wrote in message ... It appears he is listed on the Military.com site. This however does not confirm his service. Very little, if any info, on the Military.com site. A picture of the supposed BG as a Col. in a...

Can anyone tell me if the ejection seats fitted to the various version will have different makes of ejector seats? Given that the Navy have a liking for Martin Baker units and the Air Force tend to use ACES II units (I don't know if the Marines have a perference but the RAF do). Thanks for any...

Brake failures of Hornet prompt military warnings Published August 5, 2005 ASSOCIATED PRESS The front-line fighter jet of the Navy and Marines has been in a series of recent accidents blamed on brake failure, exposing a problem that has spurred urgent warnings from commanders, military...

What's the best naval fighter of 1963? The mission is pure air defense, with not a pound for air to ground. Not suprisingly, most web sites talk about modern planes and don't describe the tactics and equipment of this era.

I am trying to find identify the fuselage "coding" on Lt. Gerald A. Anderson's Corsair IV. All I know for sure is that his aircraft's registration number was "KD546" from HMS Formidable's 1845 Squadron. Lt. Anderson, who came from Trenton Ontario, was killed on August 9, 1945 when he crashed into...

Navy Grounds 104 Hornets To Inspect For Airframe Cracking As a result of an emerging safety of flight issue with legacy Boeing F/A-18A-D Hornets, the Navy is grounding 104 of the aircraft after inspections revealed that cracking has occurred earlier than predicted in some airframes, according to...

Yeah Way wrote in : Ooops! Who's got the net. We've got ourselves a live one here. And-uh as is usual it posts its crap by the dumpster load. IBM

Captain Ward Boston's declaration (http://www.ifamericansknew.org/ us_ints/ul-boston.html ) was faxed to Jim Bamford he read at the State Department panel discussion on the USS Liberty attack/cover-up (can watch Bamford read such via the USS Liberty/Six Day War link near the bottom of...

Bush denies preparing attack against Iran By Edward Luce in Washington Published: January 26 2007 19:37 | Last updated: January 26 2007 19:37 George W. Bush on Friday sought to deny widespread rumours his administration was preparing some kind of military action against Iran. Mr Bush confirmed a...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/09/AR2006110901865.html Boeing Wins Deal To Build Helicopters, Beating Lockheed By Renae Merle Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, November 10, 2006; D01 Boeing Co. won a coveted contract yesterday for 141 Air Force search-and-rescue...

I understand that one of the Blues has resigned from the team. Any ideas and what will be the plan for the rest of the season? Sparky

Hi, - I was to an air show awhile back. I was inspecting a Navy A6 Intruder. I caught the exhaust end of the tail pipe and noticed a circumference of mesh "feathers" on the inner ID, that honestly looked like dragonfly wings, gossamer in texture. I wonder what the function of this is, what the...

Nobuyoshi Koremoto, an ex-skipper of JDS Amatsukaze that participated in RIMPAC 1980, wrote in the August 2010 issue of the Ship of the World that in the 1980 exercise a flight of Australian A-4G Skyhawks from HMAS Melbourne playing an 'Orange' force carrier attacked USS Constellation, which was...

Russia/China Activate Ten Combat Divisions Counter United States as Caspian Oil War begins: http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?p=170864#170864 http://nomorewarforisrael.blogspot.com

Time Sensitive: Washed from Google News Groups 4/26/07. NASA's Project Blue Beam: DREAM POLICE Cray Search:

http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htlead/20100202.aspx Women Take Command At Sea February 2, 2010: In the mid 1970s, the U.S. Navy began letting women into Annapolis (the Naval Academy) and flight school. Some 35 years later we have women commanding combat aircraft squadrons, cruisers,...

Saturday, July 1, 2006 Wallpaper of the month - July, 2006 Desktop Wallpaper - "Heritage Flight over Lady Liberty". A P-51 Mustang, flown by Jim Beasley; an F-16 Fighting Falcon, flown by Maj. Dax Cornelius from Hill Air Force Base, Utah; an F-15 Eagle, flown by Capt. Tony Bierenkoven from Eglin...

Question: You are forced to ditch in a a/c with fixed landing gear. The sea is calm and search and rescue are aware of your situation and location. How do you put 'her' down? Mike

Limeys, Aussies, Kiwis and Canadians If you are looking for mates from an old unit that you served with then take a minute to check out http://www.ComradesandColleagues.com it's genuinely free to see if your old friends are registered and only takes a minute, so it's worth a look. (Sorry no U.S....

Marines' new KC-130J begins VX-1 op eval (EXCERPT) by Bill Swanson SENIOR WRITER Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 1 and its guest contingent of nearly three dozen Marines from MCAS Cherry Point, N.C., have begun the three-month-long operational test evaluation of the Marines' new KC-130J Hercules...