I first saw the McD questionaire in the late 1980s, while I was in the USMC.

The other is also familiar from the time-frame… we had lots of such lists.

Sometimes the solution was to change aircrew…

The back-seater in F-4s & F-14s was called the Radar Intercept Officer… RIO for short.

P: radar not functioning correctly.

S: removed & replaced R10, system checks 4-0.

P: control stick feels loose.

S: tightened loose nut behind stick, works fine.

In a truly honest, wide-ranging review, EVERYTHING is “on the table”!

You look at every possibility, throw out the ludicrous, then begin zeroing in past the improbable towards the practical.

Unfortunately, journalists usually cannot comprehend the differences in the categories.

Vickers Valiant B.1

Serial c/n Aircraft History

WP201 ? Was expected to be on loan for approx 6 months in 1955 for Bomb Ballistic trials. Used for the Blue Steel Nuclear ‘stand-off’ bomb which was being built by A.V.Roe & Co Ltd. Over 50 two-fifth scale model Blue Steel bomb were delivered to RAAF Edinburgh Field for the trials.

WP204 ? Departed for Australia 27/09/60. Received by RAAF 26/08/60. Operated by Base Sqn Edinburgh for A.V Roe and Co. departed for the UK 04/01/62. Returned to the UK 11/01/62. Used for the Blue Steel Nuclear ‘stand-off’ bomb which was being built by A.V.Roe & Co Ltd. Over 50 two-fifth scale model Blue Steel bomb were delivered to RAAF Edinburgh Field for the trials.

WP206 ? Received by RAAF 17/10/61. To A.V Roe and Co 17/10/61. Returned to the UK 27/05/63. Used for the Blue Steel Nuclear ‘stand-off’ bomb which was being built by A.V.Roe & Co Ltd. Over 50 two-fifth scale model Blue Steel bomb were delivered to RAAF Edinburgh Field for the trials.

Vulcan B.1/B.2

Serial Aircraft History

XA903 First Flight 10/05/57. Delivered to RAF 31/05/57. Arrived in Australia 16/11/60. To Base Sqn Edinborough 17/11/60. Returned to RAF 06/02/61. Preserved Wellesbourne Mountford UK.

XH539 Arrived in Australia 12/12/69. Date of return unknown. Scrapped Waddington 1989.

Basically, all the “V”-bombers that made it onto RAAF inventory were there for weapons trials, and the RAAF was simply administrative custodian.

Nothing is said about RAAF evaluations relating to possible purchase.

I don’t see the problem.

He confirms what I said… that the physical and design main-mission replacements were A-1>A-6 and A-3>A-5.

That one of the A-3/A-5 missions was later transferred to the A-6 changes nothing. I already mentioned that several of the EA-3/KA-3 missions were transferred to the EA-6B/KA-6K… this is just one more post-design mission shift.

We are saying basically the same thing… it is just that your earlier assertion was that the A-6 was designed to replace the A-3, which is not correct, and your friend confirms this.

Not an F-84F Thunderstreak (swept-wing version).

It is a straight-wing Thunderjet… F-84 A/B/C/D/E/G.

Label says “F-84E”.

But still a nice wall decoration… and a rather nice prize.

“Neue Elyis” may have been “Neuve Eglise”.

Phase: the Battle of Bailleul, 13 – 15 April 1918

Second Army (Plumer)
IX Corps (Gordon)
19th (Western) Division
25th Division
34th Division
49th (West Riding) Division, fought in defence of Neuve Eglise
59th (2nd North Midland) Division
71st Brigade of 6th Division
South African Infantry Brigade of 9th (Scottish) Division
88th Brigade of 29th Division
100th Brigade of 33rd Division, fought in defence of Neuve Eglise
108th Brigade of 36th (Ulster) Division.

Battle of Bailleul

On 13–15 April, the Germans also drove forward in the center, taking Bailleul, 12 km west of Armentières, despite increasing British resistance. However, Plumer assessed the heavy losses of Second Army and the defeat of his southern flank, and ordered his northern flank to withdraw from Passchendaele to Ypres and the Yser Canal; the Belgian Army to the north conformed.

This is both the proper time and place for his capture… and confirms a withdrawal by British forces right when he lost contact with his unit.

Yugoslavia also supplied a Yak-23 to the US. (Defection from Romania). No doubt it helped foster good relations with the west?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFXAdrJoQl0

TJ

What I saw said that the Yak-23 was being shipped through Yugoslavia via rail, and the Yugos “lost” the cars for a few days.

The Yak-23 was already crated up, and so it was easy to just load them into a C-124 and fly them to Wright-Patterson AFB, where it was un-crated, examined, assembled, flown, taken apart, and re-crated.

It was then flown back to Yugoslavia, where it was re-loaded aboard the freight cars, “found”, and shipped on to its scheduled destination a few days late.

Because, like so many things the GAO has its hand in, it was designed to produce a result that could be used to try to cancel the program.