POST WAR- The United States Department of the Air Force was created when President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947. It became effective September 18, 1947, when Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson administered the oath of office to the first secretary of the Air Force, St...
The historical significance of these planes extends beyond their physical presence. Each warbird at Warbird Park played a crucial role in shaping military history. The F-100 Super Sabre, for example, was the first U.S. Air Force jet capable of exceeding the speed of sound in level flight, m...
AIR FORCE ONE - THE US PRESIDENTS AIRCRAFT Air Force One is the air traffic control call sign of any United States Air Force aircraft carrying the President of the United States. Since 1990, the presidential fleet has consisted of two specifically configured, highly customized Boeing 747-200B...
The XFA-24A Apalis is a single-seat, twin-engine, canard-delta winged strike fighter in Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception and Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation video. It is capable of accelerating straight upward and carrying high payload. In an air to air configuration it carries AIM-9 ...
Also large numbers of the Fairchild Type 24 (C-61) were produced for the military (principally the Fairchild Argus for the Royal Air Force) and postwar, the civilian market (see separate entry under Fairchild Argus). Postwar The Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar was a US military transport ...
In 1926, the newly formed Army Air Corps decided to unify all bombers under the B- series. Two already existed in this series, so the series was taken up at the designation B-3. Here is the list of the Bombers the US AIR FORCE had: XB-1 - Huff-Daland-Keystone B-2 Condor -...
Unfortunately, Doug isn't the best fighter pilot -- he wasn't accepted into the Air Force because he needs to listen to music in order to hit a target. So he enlists the help of Col. Chappy (Louis Gossett Jr.) to borrow a couple of F-16 planes, fly across the Atlantic and ...
raid something (of soldiers, fighting planes, etc.) to attack a place without warning Villages along the border are regularly raided. a raiding party (= a group of soldiers, etc. that attack a place)Topics War and conflictc1 raid something to enter a place, usually using force, and...
Chinese microblogging service Sina Weibo has announced it had 340 million monthly active users as of the end of March, overtaking US-based Twitter in active user totals, reports Sina Technology. Teacher promotes importance of exposure to nature How many kinds of plants could you recognize when you...
Air Force's X-37B Space Plane: OTV-2 Hangar Boeing DARPA's XS-1 Experimental Spaceplane program is not the first military space plane project. In fact, the U.S. Air Force has two operational robotic space planes in service today. Those two spacecraft, twin versions of the X-37B sp...