U. S. Navy Blue Angels to Headline 2008 Joint Service Open House
http://www.defenselink.mil/Advisories/

{EXCERPT} The U.S. Navy Blue Angels will headline the 2008 Joint Service Open
House Air Show at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. The show is free and open to the
public on May 17-18. The show is also open Friday, May 16 to Department of
Defense personnel and school-sponsored children only. Gates open at 8 a.m. each
day.

This year's JSOH Air Show will celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Berlin
Airlift with special commemorative activities including re-enactments of C-54
aircraft air drops and ceremonies with representatives from the German embassy.
The C-54 "Spirit of Freedom", an aircraft used during the Berlin Airlift, will
also be featured.

The entire show schedule and information on transportation and parking can be
accessed at the show's Web site at
http://www.jsoh.org .

Press interested in attending should contact the Andrews Air Force Base public
affairs office at (301) 981-4511.

U.S. Department of Defense Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public
Affairs)

The F-15 Eagle was designed in the 1960s.

The Advanced Tactical Fighter, YF-23 and YF-22, were developed in the
1980s.
The F-22 Raptor is simply the production version of the YF-22.

Worse, some of the specifications and capabilities that the ATF was
supposed to have, as of the 1980s, was dropped from the YF-22 and
final F-22.

Worse still, the watered-down F-22 came into service 5-10 years later
than originally planned.

Worse yet, instead of 750+ or even 380+, the Air Force is currently
slated to get less than 200 copies.

The F-35 JSF is newer than F-22, but is really a low-end solution
optimized for ground attack and only modest (even if decent) air-to-
air capabilities.

F-22 / F-35 is another high/low mix like the F-15/F-16. But
unlike the F-15, of which there were a decent number (many hundreds),
there will be precious few F-22s. Sure the F-22 can win against 5-
to-1 odds or even 10-to-1 odds. But what about 20-to-1 odds, if the
USAF is pitted against Russia+China within the next 10-15 years?

Zeno’s Warbird Video Drive-In May 2008 Newsletter

You’re invited to drop by Zeno’s Drive-In www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com
and sample this month’s outstanding lineup of World War 2 plane videos
playing live online.

As always, every film on our web site is showing for free.

This month “At the Matinee,” you’ll see “354th Fighter Group Color
Scrapbook,“ featuring top P-51 aces in living color;
“Thunderbolt” (color) the rock ‘em sock ‘em P-47 fighter/bomber
classic; ”Catapulting...