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October 20, 2005

Pakistan: Thanks For The Helos, Leave Crews At Home

Earthquake-Battered Nation Accepts Offer From India... Sort Of

While there's no (immediate) threat of a nuclear exchange in this case, Pakistan and arch-rival India are at odds once again. This time, the issue is the help Pakistan desperately needs in the aftermath of an earthquake that killed as many as 80,000 people -- and how India can help.

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Never Return To The Scene Of The Crime

Don't Shoot At The Skinny Helicopters, Either

By Aero-News Senior Correspondent Kevin R.C. "Hognose" O'Brien A dispatch from the US Central Command (the four-star military command that is in charge of US Operations in the Middle East) informs us that hostile forces in Iraq are unfamiliar with the two cliches that make up the title and subtitle of this story -- the title, "Never Return To The Scene Of The Crime," is a hoary old bit of advice from detective stories, and TV shows in the same genre. And "Don't Shoot At The Skinny Helicopters," a bit of legendary North Vietnamese Army advice to newbies, actually was found on an instructional sign in an NVA training camp.

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Airman's Frozen Body Found On Mount Mendel Glacier

Part Of Crew Lost In 1942 Crash

The AT-7 went down in 1942. The wreckage wasn't discovered until 1947. Now, one of the crew members aboard that military navigational trainer has apparently been found -- frozen in ice on California's Mount Mendel Glacier. The question now is, who was this airman?

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Memphis Belle Arrives At Air Force Museum

A New Home For An Old War Horse

The "Memphis Belle," the Eighth Air Force's first B-17F heavy bomber to complete 25 successful bombing missions over Europe during World War II, is now at the National Museum of the US Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH.

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'Guardian Angels' Swoop Down From Above To Save Lives

But It Ain't Easy Being A PJ

To Hurricane Katrina victims pararescuemen were angels. To injured airmen they're saviors.

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Stray Cargo Drop Nearly Squashes VIPs In India

What Goes Up Must Come Down... Somewhere

By Aero-News Senior Correspondent Kevin R.C. "Hognose" O'Brien It's usually bad news for a junior officer when the commander of the whole armed service knows your name. We visited that fact recently with the hapless Russian fighter pilot, Valery Troyanov, who crashed in Lithuania and was thrown in jail (He was released first to house arrest, and has since gone home to Russia). The most recent officer to be threatened with the "Commander in Chief's Special Projects Officer On An Extremely Short Leash" job is an unnamed Indian Air Force pilot, who made an impression on Air Chief Marshal S. P. Tyagi and a glittering array of other brass.

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