Nearly all of the aircraft that were transferred to the Coast Guard from the US Navy or from the US Air Force served with the Coast Guard under their original serial numbers, not being allocated a separate USCG serial number. However, the system was not always consistent, and sometimes aircra...
The US Air Force has an entirely different serial numbering scheme, based on aircraft procurements within each fiscal year. Occasionally, aircraft are transferred from the USAF to the Navy. If the transfer is anticipated to be permanent, it is usually the case that the transferred aircraft are ...
Air Force Aircraft, Weapons and Technology The US Air Force uses many different types of equipment. Learn about the aircraft, weapons and technology the Air Force utilizes to carry out missions and defend the United States. RC-135S Cobra Ball ...
These designs included civilian aircraft, such as the Boeing Model 307 Starliner and the famed Boeing Model 314 Clipper, which saw great fame while flying for Pan-American Airways in the late 1930s and even saw service as a Presidential transport aircraft for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The Model...
force, but at a cost. Aircraft carriers provide a forward base of operations when you need to apply air power but have nowhere to land and fuel aircraft, see the Falklands War. Vulcans flew from the UK, but you could not have interdicted Argentine air superiority from the UK, or ...
Mail service was for the first time turned over to private contractors after congressional pressure on the post office with the Air Mail Act of 1925, also known as the Kelly Act. This was the first chess piece to be moved in an effort to accelerate aviation technology and aircraft performance...
(Reuters) -Ukrainian defence forces destroyed 14 out of 17 Iranian-made Shahed drones Russia launched overnight, Ukraine's military said on Tuesday, with 13 drones destroyed over the Odesa region in the country's southwest. "In total, up to 17 launches of UAV (unmanned aerial...
Not all the aircraft which served with the US Army Air Force were issued USAAF serial numbers. The best-known examples are those aircraft acquired abroad by the US Army during the Second World War. In most cases, they operated under their foreign designations and serials. For example, the ...
Three-dimensional gridded emissions represent widespread sources that emit aloft, such as aircraft, fires, and lightning NOx. Point sources represent emissions from large industrial stacks. CAMx supports three options to specify stack-specific emission injection heights: (1) externally specifying the ...
The US has few ways to track the substantial supply of anti-tank, anti-aircraft and other weaponry it has sent across the border into Ukraine, sources tell CNN, a blind spot that’s due in large part to the lack of US boots on the ground in the country