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PeteL:
Yhdysvallatkin supistaa:
http://www.dod.mil/brac/
Air Force base closures and realignments include:
* Altus AFB, Oklahoma
* Beale AFB, California
* Brooks AFB, Texas
* Cannon AFB, New Mexico
* Columbus AFB, Mississippi
* Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota
* Goodfellow AFB, Texas
* Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota
* Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts
* Kirtland AFB, New Mexico
* Los Angeles AFB, California
* McConnell AFB, Kansas
* Nellis AFB, Nevada (to realign)
* Seymour Johnson AFB
* North Carolina (to realign)
* Shaw AFB, South Carolina
* Vance AFB, Oklahoma
Ilkka:
Justiinsahan kongressi myönsi George Puskalle oliko taas 80 miljardia dollaria lisää Irakiin/Afghanistaniin. Sinnekö ne kaikki fyrkat menevät? Kuinka käy hävittäjäsuojan USA:n ilmatilassa?
jrantala:
Petrin esittämä lista USAF:n osalta on hieman erilainen kuin mitä NBC uutisoi:
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/4485418/detail.html
PeteL:
Ukrainan Lviv:ssä 2002 sattuneesta lentonäytösturmasta on annettu rangaistukset:
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The court sentenced Pilot Volodymyr Toponar to 14 years in prison, and his co-pilot Yuriy Yegorov to eight years.
Toponar was ordered to pay 7.2 million hryvna ($1.42 million) to compensate victims of the crash. Yegorov must pay 2.5 million hryvna according to Interfax.
Anatoliy Tretyakov, the commander of the 14th air unit, and the deputy flight commander, Yuriy Yatsyuk, were sentenced to six years and ordered to pay 700,000 hryvnyas each.
Anatoliy Lukinykh, the head of the flight safety of the 14th air unit, was issued a four-year suspended sentence and ordered to pay 200,000 hryvnyas.
http://www.aero-news.net
(1 Euro = 6.09934 Ukrainan Hryvnia)
Marski:
http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050718/NEWS01/507180321/1006
Finns want plane back from Pensacola museum
HELSINKI, Finland -- Aviation enthusiasts in Finland want the only surviving example of the Brewster Buffalo returned to their nation.
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