4th annual Bids for Kids gala in Framingham tonight Nov 1, 2009
Live auction items include a three-day stay for eight people on Cape Cod, a plane ride in a World War II-era B-17 bomber, and two tickets to "Live with Regis and Kelly," which includes luxury transportation to and from New York. Susan Wornick of WCVB-Tv will emcee the event. (Marlborough Enterprise, MA)
Evergreen pilot nabs second place in air race Oct 31, 2009
Not content to just wait until next,year, owner Rod Lewis bought a newly prepared stock engine from a group restoring a B-29 bomber. The Rare Bear crew installed it just before the races, but without time for flight testing. (Denver Post)
Missing WWII Airman Given to Family in California Oct 30, 2009
For two decades after her son's bomber went down in the Pacific Ocean during World War II, Vella Stinson faithfully wrote the U.S. government twice a month to ask if his body had been found or if anyone was looking ... Military divers recovered two pieces of leg bone from the wreckage of a B-24J Liberator bomber found at the bottom of the ocean off the coast of the island nation of Palau ... Stinson's family knew only that his bomber had gone down in the Pacific Ocean. (Fox News)
Family welcomes home remains of WWII airman Oct 29, 2009
HIGHLAND, California (AP): For two decades after her son's bomber went down in the Pacific Ocean during World War II, Vella Stinson faithfully wrote the U.S. government twice a month to ask if his body had been found - or if anyone was looking ... Military divers recovered several pieces of leg bone from the wreckage of a B-24J Liberator bomber found at the bottom of the ocean off the coast of the island nation of Palau ... Stinson's family knew only that his bomber had gone down in the Pacific... (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
Aviator style from 'Amelia' lands on runways, too Oct 28, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) Before they became staples of the runway, bomber jackets, flight suits and protective aviator sunglasses were born in the cockpit of an early and cold airplane ... The leather bomber jacket shown in the new Earhart biopic Amelia starring Hilary Swank marries function and style in a way that finicky fashion has embraced through the years, says Franco DiCarlo, executive vice president of Belstaff USA, the brand that collaborated with the filmmakers on key wardrobe... (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)
COLUMN: 'Good without God' seems to turn nothing into a bit of something to brag about Oct 28, 2009
Jon Vanatta wrote on Oct 27, 2009 5:26 PM:" One of the things you unbelievers in God are always asking is that if God is real and if He is good then why does He not get rid of evil and suffering and tyrants and all those that do bad things but then when He has done that then you say He is a cold hearted murdering God. You do not seem to be able to grasp that God does not hate people but He hates the sinful and evil things that people do. God has often used evil people to punish evil people. He... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
The Rise of Nuclear Alarmism Oct 28, 2009
Not long ago, three nukes flew on a bomber right across the country without anyone knowing about them. They were discovered when the plane landed (in Louisiana I think). (Slate)
Bunker buster carries goal of deterring Iran Oct 27, 2009
9 million to McDonnell Douglas to more quickly adapt a 30,000-pound bunker buster to the B-2 stealth bomber ... In 2007, officials at the bomber base east of Kansas City estimated the bomb would be B-2-ready in 2008. (Herald Online, SC -- Lifestyles)
Lockerbie bomber freed Oct 25, 2009
Lockerbie bomber boards plane home. The convicted Lockerbie bomber has been flown home to Libya after being freed from a Scottish prison on compassionate grounds. (BBC News -- UK)
DA Leone: Feds' case against Mehanna appears strong Oct 24, 2009
Known as the "Shoe Bomber," Reid tried to blow up a plane carrying 180 passengers. Reading the search warrant affidavit, Leone said it appears the government has "all their ducks in a row," and its case against Mehanna, a Sudbury resident, is strong. (Hopkinton Town Crier, MA)
Valley hosts WWII airmen's reunion Oct 24, 2009
The famed all-Black unit escorted bombers during their missions over Europe ... The Tuskegee Airmen, based in Italy, met the bombers and "covered us," he said, noting he remembered their P-51 Mustangs with their tails painted red ... Arthur Stofko, the co-pilot, is the only other surviving member of the original bomber crew. (AZCentral -- News)
Flight Overshoots Airport by 150 Miles Oct 23, 2009
Bicycle Bomber Kills 7 at Gate to Air Force Complex with Possible Links to Country's Nuclear Weapons Program. News in Pictures Scroll Left Scroll Right. (CBS News)
B-17 Flying Fortress Airmen Drop In To Fantasy of Flight Today, Tomorrow Oct 21, 2009
Published: Saturday, October 17, 2009 6:08 AM EDT Fantasy of Flight continues its 2009 Living History Symposium Series with a tribute to the Boeing B-17 Bomber, aka the Flying Fortress, and the brave men who flew these sturdy, virtually indestructible, long-distance bombers ... Guests will be able to walk through an authentic B-17 Flying Fortress and imagine what it was like to participate in a bombing mission over hostile Germany as one of the bomber s 10-member crew ... Gilbert Gil Belair of... (The Fort Meade Leader, FL)
Algerian suicide bomb kills four Oct 21, 2009
"A suicide bomber drove into the police station at the wheel of a booby-trapped car, causing major damage to the building," an eyewitness told AFP news agency. No group has so far said claimed the attack. (Yahoo News -- Algeria)
Museum lands plane that set commercial flight aloft Oct 21, 2009
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Blast at Islamabad university Oct 21, 2009
Two suicide bombers have killed at least four people at a university in the Pakistani capital Islamabad ... Qari Hussain, the man reportedly responsible for training Pakistani Taliban suicide bombers, said his organisation now considered all of Pakistan to now be a war zone ... Rubble and masonry were littered on the floor, as well as some shoes - it's unclear whether these belonged to the bomber or one of his victims. (BBC News -- South Asia)
Algeria timeline Oct 21, 2009
2007 July - A suicide bomber targets a military barracks near Bouira, killing at least nine people. 2007 September - At least 50 people are killed in a series of bombings. (BBC News -- Africa)
Search for Amelia Earhart expands to theaters this week Oct 20, 2009
Earhart's image tall, bobbed hair, attractively androgynous, casually elegant in leather bomber jacket, jodhpurs and a man's tie is so familiar to contemporary eyes it's hard to believe her photos were taken nearly a century ago. Advertisers, who have used Earhart's image to sell Gap khakis and Apple computers, don't even have to caption her pictures. (USA Today)
Winging itAmelia Earhart never had a plan. She didn’t have a career path or... Oct 19, 2009
This year, especially, she s in the air, inspiring fashion from bomber jackets to khakis and major movies ... This year, especially, she s in the air, inspiring fashion from bomber jackets to khakis and major movies. (New York Post -- News)
Suicide bomber kills 15 at Iraq mosque Oct 17, 2009
BAGHDAD (AP) A suicide bomber who hid among the Sunni congregation in a northern Iraqi mosque sprayed gunfire at Muslim worshippers Friday and then blew himself up, killing at least 15 people, including the imam leading prayers, officials said ... Assad Masud al-Taie, 32, who was sitting near the bomber, said he heard the man recite a verse from the Muslim holy book, the Quran, just before he blew himself up ... On July 9, two suicide bombers wearing explosives belts killed at least 38 people... (Florida Today)
Vets share their war stories Oct 17, 2009
Ketner, a former B-17 bomber pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps, and Kyler, a member of the 101st Airborne Division, had their stories included in a collection of Pennsylvania veterans stories that were gathered by the Pennsylvania Cable Network, said Rick Cochran, PCNs vice president of marketing ... Despite all the years between the war and now, Ketner could still spout off the names of the men he served with on the bomber ... Chester Kauffman, a fellow bomber pilot from Waynesboro, found... (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)
Camels Hump Plane Crash: 65 Years Later Oct 16, 2009
Dark and early on the morning of Oct. 16, 1944, a B-24 bomber with a crew of ten on a training mission from Westover Air Base in Massachusetts crashed into the top of the mountain. Only one crewman, PFC James Wilson, survived. (WCAX.com, VT)
Air show makes history! Oct 14, 2009
The star feature is the B-17 bomber that sits in the center. The A-11s were used to train bombardiers for the B-17. (Camden Chronicle, TN)
Today in History - Oct. 14 Oct 14, 2009
A suicide bomber killed four Americans in the U.S.-guarded "Green Zone" of Baghdad. One year ago: Big banks started falling in line behind a revised bailout plan that was fast becoming more of a buy-in; the Bush administration announced it would fork over as much as $250 billion in exchange for partial ownership. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
Suicide bomber kills 41 in Pakistan market Oct 13, 2009
On Oct. 5, a bomber blew himself up inside a heavily guarded U.N. aid agency in the capital, Islamabad, killing five staffers. On Friday, a suspected militant detonated an explosives-laden car in the middle of a busy market in the northwestern city of Peshawar, killing 53 people. (USA Today)
Britain defends release of Lockerbie bomber Oct 13, 2009
LONDON, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Monday that Britain's interests would be damaged if the Lockerbie bomber were to die in a Scottish prison rather than in Libya ... The British government has published correspondence with the Scottish government in a bid to refute allegations that the Lockerbie bomber's release was linked to a trade deal. (Xinhuanet, China)
The unseen reactions to Obama's Nobel Oct 12, 2009
October 2005 Three suicide bombings on the resort island of Bali kill 23 people, including the bombers ... Lockerbie and the behind the release of a convicted bomber - is a lot to get over. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Captured Insurgent in Iraq: I Will Fight Again Oct 11, 2009
"But we decided we should not have children because my wife wanted to become a martyr (suicide bomber). Many women were starting to do it then. She wanted to follow. Even her parents encouraged her to do it. So we began making plans for her martyrdom. I was proud of her." ... Pakistani security forces rescue boys who they say were kidnapped by the Taliban to become suicide bombers. (Fox News)
Library of Congress to Display Photos of Airmen Oct 10, 2009
" Mr. Price spent 18 months from 2005 to 2007 shooting pictures of Airmen at Nellis and Creech Air Force bases in Nevada. He chose those two bases because of the training conducted there and the similarity to the desert environs of Afghanistan and Iraq. Gen. Carrol H. "Howie" Chandler, Air Force vice chief of staff and a veteran of more than 3,900 hours in the T-38 Talon, F-15 Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon, attended the presentation. He said the term "cleared hot" is part of a distinctive... (DOD DefenseLINK)
U.S. Ditches Isolated Afghan Outpost Oct 10, 2009
On Thursday, a suicide car bomber outside the Indian Embassy in Kabul, killing 17 people in the second major attack in the city in less than a month ... In the eastern province of Paktia, a suicide car bomber rammed a convoy of road construction workers in Wazi Zadran district on Friday, killing five people and wounding four others, said provincial police chief Gen. Azizudin Wardak. (CBS News)
Fame finally takes wing for the WASPs Oct 10, 2009
They were the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASP, and there were about 1,000 of them who volunteered to fly dangerous fighter, bomber, transport, and training aircraft in the United States in order to free up male pilots for combat duty overseas ... Stationed at 120 air bases across America, the WASP flew every kind of domestic mission and military plane - light trainers, heavy bombers, cargo planes, even the dreaded B-26 Marauder, a twin-engine bomber nicknamed the Widowmaker for its... (Boston Globe)
17 dead as suicide blast targets Kabul's Indian embassy Oct 9, 2009
It identified the suicide bomber as "Khalid" from the Paghman district of Kabul province. Indian officials - in New Delhi and at the Kabul embassy - said no one at the embassy was killed, though some guards had sustained injuries as the blast blew out glass windows and doors. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Afghans Await Troop Plan, Election Result Oct 8, 2009
Suspected Suicide Car Bomber Kills At Least 12 on Busy Road Between Indian Embassy, Afghan Interior Ministry. 00004000. (CBS News -- Early Show)
Triumph of the Friendly Monster -- Book Follows the Thrilling Adventure of a Bomber Plane During World War II Oct 8, 2009
Friendly Monster was the code name for the B-29 bomber plane flown by a crew under the command of Cox. The story begins with their training period and introduction to the state-of-the-art airplane. (Primezone Releases)
B17 Bomber set to arrive Thursday Oct 7, 2009
The much-anticipated arrival of the World War II B17 bomber is here. The bomber is set to land at the Benton County Airport around 10 a.m., depending on local weather conditions ... Weather permitting; B17 bomber flights will start at 11 a.m. on Friday. (Camden Chronicle, TN)
Soldier Killed In Afghanistan Remembered As Hero, Humanitarian Oct 5, 2009
Sklaver, a 32-year-old native, was killed in an ambush, possibly by a suicide bomber, while on patrol Friday in Muscheh, , near the border. Major Charlie Jaworski, a spokesman for the Army, declined comment on how Sklaver, who was in the 422nd Civil Affairs Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division, was killed. (FOX61, CT)
8 Americans Dead in Fierce Afghan Battles Oct 5, 2009
My son was wounded Aug 29th in Shajoy town, Zabul province when of foot patrol in the baazar mingling with the people befriending them a suicide bomber blew himself up from15 ft away wounding 11 Americans, 20 Afghans, and killing a little girl & old man ... At Least 3 Killed by Suspected Taliban Suicide Bomber in Office of United Nations' Food Aid Agency. (CBS News -- World)
Gore Vidal: US will have a dictatorship soon Oct 5, 2009
The writer Edmund White took the correspondence as the basis for a play, Terre Haute (the jail McVeigh was incarcerated in before he was 00004000 executed in 2001), imagining an encounter between the bomber and Vidal charged with desire. He s a filthy, low writer, Vidal says of White. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Milo Oakland, 87, of Dunwoody, an ace WWII bomber pilot Oct 3, 2009
Milo Oakland never talked a lot about his harrowing experiences as a bomber pilot in the final months of World War II, according to his son David of Charlottesville, Va ... On one especially dangerous mission over southern Germany, his B-24 Liberator bomber. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
Laughable but perhaps a threat: the 'keister bomb' Oct 2, 2009
Among the myriad ways to screen airline passengers for explosives - the imaginative but equally unsuccessful "shoe bomber" of late 2001, Richard Reid, still has us removing footwear at the gates - McCauley noted: "Our behavior detection officers have been trained to recognize anomalies in someone exhibiting signs of stress or deception.". While these signs may be evident in one hiding an improvised explosive device where the sun doesn't shine, Sandy Straus of the Florida-based Explosives Academy... (AZCentral -- News)
The Fives: Car eating sinkholes, bad Obama polls and sex offenders in the woods -- all on video Oct 1, 2009
A cousin of mine who played in the NHL through the 1960s and into the 1970s had the nickname "The Mad Bomber." It stemmed from an incident when the team was boarding a plane one night and he joked about bringing a bomb on board. Not funny. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Kissimmee museum puts WWII vet back in B-17 Sep 30, 2009
KISSIMMEE -- On the ground, a B-17 rattles and roars like a freight train -- an unsettling analogy that momentarily threatened to belie the bomber's nickname: Flying Fortress ... The first passenger out of his seat was 87-year-old William J. Yepes of Tampa, a lieutenant and bombardier in a B-17G bomber similar to the restored version that will be available for public flights this weekend at the Kissimmee Air Museum ... Of course, the gravest menace was the enemy fighter planes that hunted the... (Daytona Beach News Journal -- Local)
Al Qaeda Bombers Learn from Drug Smugglers Sep 30, 2009
Sheila MacVicar reports suicide bombers are now storing explosives inside their bodies in order to avoid detection ... Suicide bomber Abdullah Asieri, avoided detection by two sets of airport security and palace security by smuggling a pound of high explosives, plus a detonator in his rectum ... (CBS) Al Qaeda has developed a new tactic that allows suicide bombers to breach even the tightest security, as CBS News correspondent Sheila MacVicar reports. (CBS News)
Terror Suspect Allegedly Had Sights on 9/11 Attack Sep 26, 2009
Zazi also searched the Web site of a Queens home-improvement store for another ingredient needed to make a compound called TATP (triacetone triperoxide), the explosives used by shoe bomber Richard Reid and the terrorists who carried out the London bombings that killed more than 50 people, according to court papers. Zazi intensified his bomb-making experiments this month, cooking up substances in a Colorado hotel suite he rented on Sept. 6-7 before driving 1,600 miles to New York over the course... (Fox News)
Gadhafi meets with Lockerbie family members in NYC Sep 26, 2009
Last month, a Scottish magistrate ordered the release of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi after he was diagnosed with fatal prostate cancer. He was greeted by thousands of cheering Libyans upon his arrival, infuriating the victims' families. (Anchorage Daily News)
WWII pilot ‘completes’ final mission, secures new wings Sep 26, 2009
Fearing reprisals from villagers for being a bomber pilot, Harding buried his pilot s wings in the cellar floor ... He toured the bomber about 10 years ago with his grandchildren but didn t fly in it, so this time it was a treat. (Boston Globe)
Service marks airlift anniversary Sep 26, 2009
Explosives 'inside' suicide bomber. One-minute World News. (BBC News -- UK)
'Shoe bomber' writes home; experts wary Sep 23, 2009
Experts wary of 'shoe bomber' communication with family - CNN.com ... Experts wary of 'shoe bomber' communication with family ... WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Convicted "shoe bomber" Richard Reid was given permission to correspond from prison with members of his family this summer, after the Justice Department allowed restrictions on him to expire. (CNN)
Vigil held for Pan Am 103 Sep 23, 2009
"It's timely to do this now, especially after their leader embraced the bomber with a hero's welcome on his return to Libya," said Bridget Schultz, SA's public relations director ... While the main focus of the event was to honor and remember the lives lost, students chose to express their feelings on the release of the bomber. (Daily Orange, NY)
Oxford Hosts 'Wings of Freedom' Tour at Airport Sep 23, 2009
OXFORD - During one of his crew's missions in Germany during World War II, the B-17 bomber Vern Nelson was flying in was fired upon by enemy aircraft. Mr. Nelson, then about 25 years-old and a top turret and waist gunner in the U.S. Army Air Force's 333rd, 94th Bomb Group, was in the waist gunner position of the plane. (Voices, CT)
Thunderbirds roar and roll Sep 21, 2009
The high-tech plane with its white and black rotating radar dome is normally based in Alaska but was at Hickam Air Force Base yesterday, along with about two dozen Air Force aircraft -- including the B-1 Bomber and F-22 Raptor fighter -- at the "Wings Over the Pacific" open house ... The high-tech plane with its white and black rotating radar dome is normally based in Alaska but was at Hickam Air Force Base yesterday, along with about two dozen Air Force aircraft -- including the B-1 Bomber and... (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
Recovered WWII Bracelet Returned To Dead Airmans Sister Sep 21, 2009
Heinz Kruse, who was given the silver trinket, was 16 when the B-24 bomber crashed. He's 81 now and still living in the same rural village, which later became part of East Germany. (KWTX.com, TX)
Judge's life the subject of new book Sep 20, 2009
He was a World War II bomber pilot whose plane was shot down on his first mission and was captured by German troops. Alaimo, the only survivor from his crew, escaped from Stalag Luft 3 - after three earlier attempts failed - about two months before the Germans surrendered. (Athens Banner-Herald)
* Freed Lockerbie bomber appeals his case online Sep 20, 2009
Freed Lockerbie bomber appeals his case online ... The freed Lockerbie bomber on Friday released documents online that he said support his claim that he is innocent of the 1988 bombing of a plane over Scotland, which killed 270 people. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Bodies of Italian soldiers arrive home Sep 20, 2009
In Thursday's attack the suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into the paratroopers' two-vehicle convoy in central Kabul not far from the US embassy on the busy airport road, killing and wounding the soldiers and 10 Afghan civilians. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said after the attack that Rome now wants to trim its deployment in Afghanistan but only with agreement from NATO partners. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Former POWs treated to lunch, memories at McChord Sep 19, 2009
Bill Whitney s captivity began when his B-26 Marauder bomber plane was shot down over the skies of Vichy France in spring 1944. The Army Air Corps pilot spent time in a Gestapo-run prison. (Longview Daily News, WA)
Seeking Redemption Sep 19, 2009
Lockerbie Bomber Hopes Released Documents Will Clear His Name ... Pakistani security forces rescue boys who they say were kidnapped by the Taliban to become suicide bombers. (Fox News)
Local World War II veteran waxes over B-17 warbird Sep 19, 2009
George Main, 87, of Vandenberg Village, flew a B-17 bomber in World War II, similar to one open for tours this weekend at the Santa Maria Public Airport ... George Main is now an 87-year-old resident of Vandenberg Village, but in 1944, he was a 21-year-old pilot, also known as the aircraft commander, of a B-17 bomber during World War II. ... About 26,000 crew members lost their lives flying missions in B-17 bombers, according to Rick Senffner, leader of the Arizona Wing Commemorative Air Force... (Lompoc Record, CA)
• Emulating the Great Healer Sep 19, 2009
"And the suicide bombers target soldiers in uniform.". That said, Davis saw war up close, coming home with pictures of a charred foot of a suicide bomber who blew himself up outside the hospital, killing 12 people and injuring 30. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Ex-tea boss took part in genocide Sep 19, 2009
Law chief 'deplores' bomber claim. Race 'not behind health protests. (BBC News -- Africa)
Lockerbie bomber pushes to clear name Sep 19, 2009
Lockerbie bomber continues push to clear name ... 28:In a recent interview, the Lockerbie bomber insisted that one day his name will be cleared. (MSNBC -- International)
Spotting a terrorist Sep 18, 2009
Now a next-generation technology under development in Cambridge will look for the bomber. With funding from the US Department of Homeland Security, Draper Laboratory and other collaborators are building technology to detect potential terrorists with cameras and noninvasive sensors that monitor eye blinks, heart rate, and even fidgeting. (Boston Globe)
BAE Systems plans 1,116 job cuts Sep 16, 2009
The Woodford factory has a rich history of aircraft manufacture, building more than 4,000 Lancaster bombers during World War II, and the delta-wing Vulcan bomber in the 1950s. "My father worked here before me, and I have been here for 29 years, so it is a sad day," said Andy Jackson, a logistics operator. (BBC News -- Business)
Banana sex cult leader splits Sep 16, 2009
A SUICIDE bomber has detonated explosives beside a police car in the capital of Russia's southern republic of Chechnya, Russian news agencies reported today. POLICE urge calm on "very emotional issue" after coffin left on Dennis Ferguson's doorstep. (Harper's Magazine)
Rival Company to Fight Lockheed's Legal Fee Request Sep 16, 2009
L-3 Communications Integrated Systems, which a jury found had deliberately misappropriated Lockheed's trade secrets regarding an antisubmarine bomber, has countered that the fee request is excessive. L-3 Comm claims, among other things, that Kilpatrick Stockton rotated associates in and out of the case, racking up additional hourly fees as newly assigned lawyers logged "unreasonable hours to recreate knowledge obtained by other associates.". (Law.com)
