confirmation

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/353250_tanker01.html

airbus wins

Wall street Journal,

Grumman and EADS broke Boeing’s lock on the market for aerial refueling tankers, winning a $40-billion contract to turn Airbus jets into flying gas stations for U.S. military aircraft, according to a person familiar with the situation. Full article to follow.

What would it take.

Slightly off topic, but wasn’t it Churchill who was asked in 1948-9, what it would take for the Russian Army to reach the English Channel.

His answer,

Shoes!

Armed B-52

There is another theory:

Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Those five nukes on that B-52 may have something to do with Iran
Staging Nukes for Iran?

By Larry Johnson

Why the hubbub over a B-52 taking off from a B-52 base in Minot, North Dakota and subsequently landing at a B-52 base in Barksdale, Louisiana? That’s like getting excited if you see a postal worker in uniform walking out of a post office. And how does someone watching a B-52 land identify the cruise missiles as nukes? It just does not make sense.

So I called a old friend and retired B-52 pilot and asked him. What he told me offers one compelling case of circumstantial evidence. My buddy, let’s call him Jack D. Ripper, reminded me that the only times you put weapons on a plane is when they are on alert or if you are tasked to move the weapons to a specific site.

Then he told me something I had not heard before.

Barksdale Air Force Base is being used as a jumping off point for Middle East operations. Gee, why would we want cruise missile nukes at Barksdale Air Force Base. Can’t imagine we would need to use them in Iraq. Why would we want to preposition nuclear weapons at a base conducting Middle East operations?

His final point was to observe that someone on the inside obviously leaked the info that the planes were carrying nukes. A B-52 landing at Barksdale is a non-event. A B-52 landing with nukes. That is something else.

Now maybe there is an innocent explanation for this? I can’t think of one. What is certain is that the pilots of this plane did not just make a last minute decision to strap on some nukes and take them for a joy ride. We need some tough questions and clear answers. What the hell is going on? Did someone at Barksdale try to indirectly warn the American people that the Bush Administration is staging nukes for Iran? I don’t know, but it is a question worth asking.

Larry C Johnson Bio
Mr. Johnson, who worked previously with the Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism, is a recognized expert in the fields of terrorism, aviation security, crisis and risk management.

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Labels: Iran, military, Nuclear Weapons

High Flight

High Flight (1957) starring Ray Milland. Turner Movie Classics had this on a few days ago but I was only able to catch the last twenty minutes. A poor plot, poor acting, but seeing the 1957 RAF in color makes this film a step back in time. The aerial photography, especially those formation flights of Hawker Hunters are impressive and memorable.

Radio program that detailed incident.

Roswell is now ancient history, but do we really know the truth?

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/

In Which We Serve

A classic film with classic actors.

Been years since I’ve watched this, they had it on TV and I couldn’t resist.
Noticed a lot since I last saw it, that Ju-88 sure makes a lot of passes, over and over again strafing the Brit destroyer survivors in that big life raft. One by one they are hit, but by a miracle the lifeboat never catches even one of those thousands and thousands of machine gun and cannon shells! I started feeling sorry for those survivors, until I remembered the scene where they sank those unarmed German Caciques leaving the surviving troops thrashing in the water with a simple glance and shrug before moving on! They don’t make them like that any more, a true Period Piece.