..., "I.B. DeJuan" <I.B. DeJ...@bellsouth.net> wrote: http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZWUwZjIyNWE0YWFiMTQ0MT... Biden's plane is empty of press. "His plane, a blue chartered 737, now crosses the country with about three-quarters of its seats empty, rows and rows with nary a warm body to be...

... decides to go undercover to determine if this is true. He dresses up as an Orthodox Jew. Wearing the traditional black hat, beard, long black coat, the whole schtick, the President is secretly flown in an unmarked plane to New York, picked up in an unmarked car, and dropped off in Crown Heights, Brooklyn's most Jewish neighborhood. Soon a little old man comes shuffling along. The President stops him and whispers, "Vus titzuch?" The ...

On Sep 20, 12:47 am, true.blue.bl...@gmail.com wrote: So.....based on our experiences in East Timor, WTF is the use of buying an enormously expensive plane which has been designed for use in Europe/the middle-east and is completely unsuited to the Australian environment of long distances and the need to carry a lot of ordnance to allow longer missions? Oz needs the F-35B which can attack a heck of a lot farther from its fixed ...

...He had access to 6 F-111s, with about 4 days'-worth of ordnance if Indonesia had got cranky. His only real aerial weapon was the Blackhawk. So.....based on our experiences in East Timor, WTF is the use of buying an enormously expensive plane which has been designed for use in Europe/the middle-east and is completely unsuited to the Australian environment of long distances and the need to carry a lot of ordnance to allow longer missions?

...all of the great things of netcentric warfare (NCW). The religious zealots of NCW state that because every weapons platform: Ship, plane, tank is networked that it will make “us” better than “them” in any combat imagined. And that the F..., but billions more to clean up the mess should risk turn into failure. And the F-22 is a GOOD plane. The F-35 is a joke. The JSF is fast turning into the biggest fuckup in procurement EVER, and given ...

... to have a radio installation that transmits on the *outside*. Like I said elsewhere in this thread, the approach taken by regulators should be to *accredit* each phone-aircraft combination, phone by phone and plane by plane. This is totally different from a mobile phone in the cockpit, which is where I have seen the VOR needle dancing around until the phone is turned off. Others have reported interference to com. radios...

... the range of the things we cannot conceive, within our relatively limited sphere of thinking, we can make distinctions into areas people are currently beginning in. You might try a bit more lightfooted stuff, jumping between planes withing sentences. Who knows, it might be funny. And yet, you seem to think that I should not post something relevant to everybody, yourself included. Nice straw man. You can grind me ...

...you're relying on superior detection systems to assist an inferior plane beat a superior one - why not buy the superior plane in the first place, especially as it costs only a fraction ...s inferior??? So you want the RAAF to get a plane with an inferior system?? Whose Su35 would that be? Because... And how does detecting something help in any way a plane that carries virtually no weapons, is underpowered, and can ...

....googlegroups.com... Spartan613 wrote: And thusly, another clueless air-head enters. Tell, me, do you think we should be buying from the Russians, instead? Do you mean, "should we we buying planes which are far more effective at a fraction of the cost"? If you think they're one-in-the-same, you're in urgent need of a brain transplant. -- "Those who beat their swords into ploughshares will plough for ...

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