http://www.venik4.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/yak141_17.jpg Rob

If the IFR probe won't retract, what's the usual reason, and what other effects will that failure have on other systems, specifically those associated with landing. Got asked that on another forum. Relates to a segment in this video: http://www.big-boys.com/articles/theairforcefun.html Ignore the...

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http://www.strange-mecha.com/aircraft/VTOL/V-Concept.htm Rob

Year 2010. President Hillary Clinton names CVN-78 after William J. Clinton. Year 2025. President Chelsea Clinton names CVN-85 after Hillary R. Clinton.

Following the decommissioning of the RNLN squadrons last Friday I have just completed an update to the website of the P-3 Orion Research Group. The latest changes include: - history pages for both VSQ320 and VSQ321 added (follow the links below the pics on the home page) - world wide P-3 squadrons...

Converging U.S. Navy aircraft carrier groups in Middle East http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=31129

To All USMC Reservists from HQ, USMC: All Marine Corps reservists are officially ordered to keep the Commanding Officer, USMCRSC notified of any current and change of: residential/mailing address marital status number of financially dependant family members civilian employment status, name...

Bush's tough tactics are a 'declaration of war' on Iran By Anne Penketh, Diplomatic Editor http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article2145136.ece Published: 12 January 2007 American forces stormed Iranian government offices in northern Iraq, hours after President George Bush issued a...

http://www.washtimes.com/world/20070306-101318-2817r.htm U.S. Air Force jets deploy to Okinawa By David Axe THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published March 7, 2007 GINOWAN, Japan - A deployment to Okinawa by the U.S. Air Force's newest fighter jets presages plans to rapidly boost forces in the Pacific...

CNN carried live the C-2 getting down w/o any gear. Flight crew did a hell'a job. Dumped fuel, feathered the right engine, caught the emergency wire w/ the extended hook. All captured by a nearby news helo. http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=90696&ran=138758 MW

written by: Dongfang Weishì Bureau of Investigation in the United States Congress a report using great lengths in promoting China's conventional submarines against the U.S. Navy will form a "huge threat" Shenyang 5th generation J-14 aircraft high-maneuverability and supercruising...

I dought there are only SAP warheads in use. But in a cut of a HY2 Missile the warhead was a hollow charge and some missiles like the Hsiung Feng (Taiwan) use EFP's. The HF is a Gabriel like missile and the israeli was infolved into the development of this missile. Can anyone post a link to a...

Photos of that ill-fated squadron on June 4, 1942 http://www.centuryinter.net/midway/Carrier_Squadrons/Torpedo_Eight/in_color.html#LCDR%20John%20C.%20Waldron

TOKYO — North Korea may fire a long-range ballistic missile toward Hawaii in early July, a Japanese news report said Thursday, as Russia and China urged the regime to return to international disarmament talks on its rogue nuclear program. The missile, believed to be a Taepodong-2 with a range of...

Extraordinary, if you haven't yet seen it. Crank up volume. 35 MB, if you download to disk instead of streaming. http://raoulitor.free.fr/MIII.wmv

Does anyone have any knowledge (general or otherwise) as to when the USN changed its policy regarding authorizing surface warfare officers to command the large amphib decks (the LPHs/LHAs/LHDs) ?? I'm thinking it didn't happen until after the 1970s. TIA. MW

As a young sailor (some 30+ years ago) I flew in the back of an EP-3B 'Batrack' aicraft of VQ-1. Years later, I read of the story of the two P-3As that were converted to EP-3Bs in the 1960s. The story is that they were CIA-operated out of Taiwan, Germany, etc. with a number of modifications for...

WDAllen- LSO, "Looked good when he went by me!" Pilot, "Any landing's a good landing if you can walk way from it! Right CAG?" BRBR Or " a peek is worth a thousand scans" "never pass up perfectly good wires"

Just started re-reading Coont's Flight of the Intruder, and his description of the capabilities of the terrain radar is interesting. Early in the book he describes a training flight through canyons and valleys in IMC, using the radar for avoidance. I'm curious what the BN would actually see in...