http://tcopo.cocolog-nifty.com/photos/album001/img_2199.html
F-1. JASDF.
Public relations hall, Hamamatsu AB, Shizuoka Prefecture.
Movie files of TV news reports about F-1 last flight in
http://news.tbs.co.jp/headline/tbs_headline3244265.html
http://news.tbs.co.jp/top_news/top_news3244265.html
The 37 years old F-1 pilot interviewed claimed he first met his wife when he was a student pilot, and she was an aircraft mechanic.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060311/asp/frontpage/story_5954957.asp
“Wind blows for fighter girls”
Saturday, March 11, 2006
SUJAN DUTTA
Lately in Bangalore, Yelahanka and Dundigal: Women in the Indian Air Force have created a gender issue for the government with nearly half the girls in training performing consistently better than the men but still being barred from flying combat aircraft.
Comrade J-10.
http://www.airandspacemagazine.com/ASM/Web/Site/QT-HR/HercOn.html
“C-130F in Carrier Operations Evaluation”
In a test of the venerable and versatile C-130’s suitability to support the Navy, a C-130F was equipped with an antiskid braking system and landed on the U.S.S. Forrestal. Footage courtesy Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Company.
Ospreys at work.
L-4001 Oosumi badge.
Bird strikes, &c.
“Boeing eyes Japan for airborne laser help”
Friday 10 March 2006, 5:42pm EST
By Jim Wolf
WASHINGTON, March 10 (Reuters) – Boeing Co. (BA.N: Quote, Profile, Research) is weighing a possible Japanese role in its multibillion-dollar drive to build a 747 jumbo jet that could zap a ballistic missile with a laser, a company official said Friday.
http://www.marinetimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1590111.php
“Report: China plans to build carrier”
March 10, 2006
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Associated Press
HONG KONG (Kyodo) ?The Chinese military is currently planning to build an aircraft carrier, a pro-Beijing daily in Hong Kong reported Friday.
乃he Chinese army will conduct research and build an aircraft carrier and develop our own aircraft carrier fleet,?People痴 Liberation Army Lt. Gen. Wang Zhiyuan was quoted as saying in the Chinese-language Wen Wei Po.
http://mil.longhoo.net/html/2006-02/13007.htm
Xiao Long PLAAF test pilot comments about the Xiao Long, Su-27, Chinese and foreign pilots (Israeli, Pakistani, Russian, US), UAVs, &c.
http://www.armytimes.com/print.php?f=1-292925-1588314.php
“Patriot problems nearly resolved, Army says”
March 09, 2006
By Gordon Trowbridge
Times staff writer
The Army has nearly finished changes to its Patriot anti-aircraft missile system to solve problems that caused three friendly-fire deaths of allied airmen during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, an Army official told lawmakers Thursday.
FSU, Hercules, Tomcat, &c.
WWII.
WWII.