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Somewhere over Vietnam.

Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport, Janesville

No. The Frankenreich was long before. The Frankenreich reached from the shores of the Atlantic to the banks of the river Elbe, which is today in middle Germany. Later the Frankenreich fall into 3 parts. The western part became France, the middle part vanished in history and the eastern part became after a long and turmoil history Germany. (One part of the german history was the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation, which ended in 1806). It was a long process of nation building which is more than 1.000 years ago.

Frankreich is the german name of France, as Italien is the german name of Italy and Deutschland is the german name of Germany. The Franks were a germanic tribe, that conquered Gallia from the Roman Empire. They founded the Reich (Empire) of the Franks. From this the german term Frankenreich (frankish Empire) came, which later became Frankreich.

This graphic was shown in the News of the german TV-station ZDF yesterday: 1. USA 2. Italy 3. France 4. Germany Who will find the mistakes?

In a close dogfight a modern air to air missile, like R-73, AIM-9X, Phyton 4 or IRIS-T are agile enough to curve with a fighter plane, that tries to escape. So the answer, whether a missile is chasing a plane, is: when fired on the enemies tale, yes.

Brexit.

I placed a industrial area west of Milwaukee Airport and made some minor improvements. In the next step i will place the parked aircrafts and perhaps some static aircrafts, to populate the airport.

This picture shows a downed US-Pilot in front of an aggressive Kuwaiti. My question is, why he does not show a blood chit? In Korea or Vietnam War the US Pilots had silk scarves with US flag and a printed text in different local languages, which declares, that the pilot is an american citicen and ask for help. This scarves were called blood chit. That's why my question on the wisdom of our forum: does the US military use the blood chit in our days?

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Flightline of Mirage III