The final flights of 20 more once-mothballed F-4 Phantom fighter
aircraft will end in blazes of glory (hopefully, at the end of a
precisely targeted missile, and not a southern NM runway) as BAE
Systems announced this week the company has received a $25.1
million USAF contract to convert the fighters into QF-4 targeting
drones.
The leader of the al Qaeda in Iraq was killed Thursday morning
as US and Iraqi forces using special operations troops and
helicopter gunships assaulted a road house in Baquba.
For the second year in a row, mechanical problems have put the
Commemorative Air Force's B-29 Superfortress "Fifi" back in the
hangar, cutting short the big World War II bomber's airshow
appearance schedule and forcing CAF to cancel its scheduled flight
to EAA AirVenture 2006.
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