Civil Air Patrol's cadet program is a traditional military-style cadet program, and is one of the three main missions of the Civil Air Patrol. CAP cadets wear modified versions of Air Force uniforms, hold rank and grade, and practice military customs and courtesies. They are required to main...
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The winners of the 2019 Royal Air Force Photographic Competition offer a peek inside the United Kingdom’s aerial armed forces. Military The RAF's new sub-hunter aircraft takes to the air Boeing announced today that the first of the RAF's new P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft has made...
Other large, vulnerable aircraft types that might be candidates for BWB-based configurations include maritime patrol aircraft and long-distance surveillance/reconnaissanceplanes. It’s important to note here, however, that BWB designs are unlikely to be as discrete as current stealth combat aircraft lik...
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The August 1st Air Demonstration Team, China's best-known aerobatic team, has been equipped with J-10C fighter jets and will fly their new planes at an upcoming exhibition in Malaysia, according to the spokesman for the People's Liberation Army Air Force. ...
KABUL, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Afghan Chief of Army Staff Qari Fasihuddin Fitrat has accused the United States of violating Afghanistan's airspace, saying that Washington's pilotless planes occasionally enter Afghanistan's airspace. "American drones occasionally fly over Afghanistan's airspace. Drones...
1st grade: balsa planes- one of the associated lessons is "Glide and Step" 2nd grade: finger rockets- one of the associated lessons is "Hundreds of Rockets" 3rd grade: foam gliders- one of the associated lessons is "Round the Runways" 4th grade: Rocket Planez- one of the associated...
In the game I was able to set up reference points for both China and Japan, which would give the computer-controlled AI aircraft the boundaries to patrol. For China I gave the Chinese Air Force four J-11 (Su-27) Flanker Bs, an AEW aircraft (Y-8W/KJ-200 Balance Beam) and a reconna...
6 August 1945: After serving three combat tours flying the Lockheed P-38 Lightning in the Southwest Pacific, Major Richard Ira Bong, Air Corps, United States Army, was assigned as an Air Force acceptance test pilot for new Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star jet fighters at the Lockheed Air Terminal...