First Air Force

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371United States Air Force / Tactical Air Command / McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle / Seventh Air Force / Air Combat Command / Strategic Air Command / Royal Thai Air Force bases / USAF units and aircraft of the Korean War / 483d Composite Wing / Military organization / Military / Pacific Air Forces

This Week in USAF and PACAF History 21 – 27 March[removed]Mar 1912 Lt. Frank P. Lahm flew Signal Corps No. 7, a Wright Model B aircraft, at Fort William McKinley in the Philippines—the first flight of an airplane at

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Language: English - Date: 2011-03-30 22:29:10
372Air refueling / Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker / Strategic Air Command / Aerial refueling / Boeing YAL-1 / United States Air Force / McDonnell F-101 Voodoo / Fighter aircraft / Eighth Air Force / Military aviation / Aviation / Military organization

This Week in USAF and PACAF History 30 April – 6 May[removed]Apr 1908 First Air National Guard unit. Aviation enthusiasts in the 1st Company, Signal Corps, New York National Guard, organized an “aeronautical corps”

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Language: English - Date: 2012-05-04 14:20:09
373Pacific Air Forces / Mayaguez incident / Thirteenth Air Force / Tactical Air Command / Joe M. Jackson / United States Air Force / 315th Airlift Wing / Royal Thai Air Force bases / Battle of Kham Duc / Military organization / Vietnam War / Military

This Week in USAF and PACAF History 7 – 13 May[removed]May 1918 First Flight Surgeons. Captains John F. Gallagher, Robert J. Hunter, and Claude T. Uren became the first medical officers to be assigned as flight surgeons

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Language: English - Date: 2012-05-04 18:36:12
374United States Air Force / Thirteenth Air Force / 15th Expeditionary Mobility Task Force / Seventh Air Force / Royal Thai Air Force bases / Tactical Air Command / McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle / Air Combat Command / USAF units and aircraft of the Korean War / Military organization / Military / Pacific Air Forces

This Week in USAF and PACAF History 22 – 28 March[removed]Mar 1941 The Air Corps announced the formation of its first-ever black air combat unit, the 99th Pursuit Squadron. The unit was to include 47 officers and 429 e

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Language: English - Date: 2010-03-22 14:55:46
375Air refueling / Royal Thai Air Force bases / Eielson Air Force Base / Fairbanks /  Alaska / Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker / Lockheed C-130 Hercules / Pacific Air Forces / RAF Upper Heyford / Strategic Air Command / United States Air Force / Aviation / Military aviation

This Week in USAF and PACAF History 9 – 15 April[removed]Apr 1928 The first flight across the Arctic Ocean was made by World War I aviator and Arctic explorer Carl Benjamin Eielson, together with Australian explorer

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Language: English - Date: 2012-04-09 15:23:41
376Iran–United States relations / Air refueling / Operation Eagle Claw / Lockheed C-130 Hercules / Pacific Air Forces / Eddie Rickenbacker / United States Air Force / 1st Special Operations Wing / Military Airlift Command / Aviation / Military organization / Military aviation

This Week in USAF and PACAF History 23 – 29 April[removed]Apr 1918 Lt. Edward V. Rickenbacker, the leading U.S. ace of World War I with 26 victories, shot down his first airplane. Some little-known items on the “Ace

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Language: English - Date: 2012-04-20 15:32:51
377Pacific Air Forces / Fifth Air Force / Far East Air Force / Yokota Air Base / 15th Expeditionary Mobility Task Force / Military organization / United States Air Force / Military

This Week in USAF and PACAF History 11 – 17 June[removed]June 1912 After training at the Army Air School in the Philippines, Corporal Vernon Burge became the Army’s first enlisted pilot. 16 June 1936 P-35 Fighter Con

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Language: English - Date: 2012-06-15 20:57:50
378Pacific Air Forces / McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle / United States Air Force / Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam / North American F-86 Sabre / Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 / USAAF West Coast Training Center / USAF units and aircraft of the Korean War / Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base / Military organization / Military / Aviation

This Week in USAF and PACAF History 6 – 12 February[removed]Feb 1908 The Wright Brothers and Capt. Charles S. Wallace of the Signal Corps signed the first government contract for a flying machine. The price was $25,000

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Language: English - Date: 2012-02-06 18:19:09
379Pacific Air Forces / United States Air Force / Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 / Royal Thai Air Force bases / USAF units and aircraft of the Korean War / United States Air Force In South Korea / Military / United States / Eddie Rickenbacker

This Week in USAF and PACAF History 25 April – 1 May[removed]Apr 1908 First Air National Guard unit. Aviation enthusiasts in the 1st Company, Signal Corps, New York National Guard, organized an ―aeronautical corps‖

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Language: English - Date: 2011-04-29 21:07:03
380Military organization / Pacific Air Forces / United States Air Force

This Week in USAF and PACAF History 13 – 19 February[removed]Feb 1913 The Army conducted its first test of an automatic pilot device called a gyrostabilizer by its inventor, Lawrence Sperry (left), the son of the famed

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Language: English - Date: 2012-02-15 13:32:15
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