In situations in which an aircraft becomes a threat while taking off – which gives very little reaction time – a decision on shooting it down may be taken by an Indian Air Force officer not below the rank of Assistant Chief of Air Staff ( Operations ).

* 1925 – Anthony Mason, Australian judge and Air Force Officer, Chief Justice of Australia

Additionally, the lower left quadrant, which contains the Chief of Naval Air Training insignia, has occasionally contained only Naval Aviator wings.

* Arthur T. Harris, Air Chief Marshal, Royal Air Force ( later a Marshal of the Royal Air Force )

* Frederick Sykes, Chief of the Air Staff ( United Kingdom )

* Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder, Air Chief Marshal, Royal Air Force ( later Marshal of the Royal Air Force )

It advises on national defence and is conformed by the Chief of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces and the Commanders of all three branches of the Ecuadorian Armed Forces: The Army, Navy and the Air Force.

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz presented the decoration to Powers ’ grandchildren, Trey Powers, 9, and Lindsey Berry, 29, in a Pentagon ceremony.

Significant individual contributions to the war effort by Scots included the invention of radar by Robert Watson-Watt, which was invaluable in the Battle of Britain, as was the leadership at RAF Fighter Command of Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding.

Allied leaders of the Sicilian campaign in North Africa ; ( front row, left to right ) General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder | Arthur Tedder, General Sir Harold Alexander, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope | Andrew Cunningham, ( top row, left to right ) Harold Macmillan, Major General Walter Bedell Smith, and unidentified British officers ; 1943

When Resnicoff later served as Special Assistant for Values and Vision for the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the U. S. Air Force, he would meet with Falwell to discuss issues linked to religious rights in the military, including the role and responsibilities of U. S. military chaplains.

Air Marshal Fahad Al-Amir, Chief of the General Staff, speaks to United States Marine Corps | U. S. Marines in 2009

* 1945 – World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhower's deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.

Rust's flight through a supposedly impregnable air-defense system had great effect on the Soviet military and led to the firing of many senior officers, including Defence Minister Marshal of the Soviet Union Sergei Sokolov and the head of the Soviet Air Defense, former World War II fighter ace pilot Chief Marshal Alexander Koldunov.

Frank Schwable, Chief of Staff of the First Marine Air Wing was shot down in North Korea.

Notable graduates include former U. S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell, U. S. Senator John McCain, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe Wesley Clark, former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace and Hugh Shelton, former National Security Advisor and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe James L. Jones, former U. S Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki, former U. S. Chief of Naval Operations Elmo Zumwalt, retired Air Force General Arnold W. Braswell, U. S. Ambassador to Russia John Beyrle, World War II submarine officer and best-selling novelist Edward L. Beach, Jr., former military aide to President John F. Kennedy Godfrey McHugh, murdered U. S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens, and U. S. Air Force Chief of Staff Norton A. Schwartz.

She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943.

* Federal Air Marshal Service

* Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford, Marshal of the Royal Air Force

East Pakistan's Martial Law Administrator Admiral Ahsan, unified commander of Eastern Military High Command ( EMHC ), and Air Marshal Mitty Masud, Commander of Eastern Air Force Command ( EAFC ), were the only officers to object to the plans.

Once Operation Searchlight and Operation Barisal commenced, Air Marshal Masud flew to West Pakistan, and unlike Admiral Ahsan, tried to stop the violence in East Pakistan.

Therefore, General Niazi and Air Marshal Enamul Haque, Commander of Eastern Air Force Command ( EAFC ), were failed to launch any operation in East Pakistan against Indian or its allies.

Air Marshal Enamul Haque, Commander of Eastern Air Force Command ( EAFC ), was seriously failed to protect armed action by Indian Air Force in the air.

Sir Miles was instrumental in starting the Falkland Islands Government Air Service in December 1948.

* 1982 – Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: 56 British servicemen are killed by Argentine air attack on two landing ships: RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram.

Air Chief Marshal Sir John Slessor believed that had the air force been forced to choose among the three British bombers under development in the late 1930s — the Avro Manchester, Short Stirling, and Handley Page Halifax — it would have chosen the wrong one.

* 19 September 1990 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army tries to assassinate Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Terry at his home near Stafford, England.

* September 19 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army tries to assassinate Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Terry at his home near Stafford, England.

** Falklands War: British RFA Sir Galahad is destroyed during the Bluff Cove Air Attacks

In 1934, the Air Ministry set up a committee chaired by Sir Henry Tizard to advance the state of the art of air defence in the UK.

* Major-General Sir Hugh Trenchard, Chief of the Air Staff

* Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE inventor of the jet engine

* Air Marshal Sir Robert Victor Goddard ( 1897 – 1987 ), British Royal Air Force officer

Colonel Sir Archibald David Stirling, DSO, OBE ( 15 November 1915 – 4 November 1990 ) was a Scottish laird, mountaineer, World War II British Army officer, and the founder of the Special Air Service.

* Sir Keith Park Memorial Campaign – proposal to erect a statue in honour of the Battle of Britain war hero Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park

On 22 January, the RAF director of bomber operations, Air Commodore Sydney Bufton, sent a memo to the Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sir Norman Bottomley, suggesting that what appeared to be a coordinated air attack by the RAF to aid the current Soviet offensive would have a detrimental effect on German morale.

That evening Churchill asked the Secretary of State for Air, Sir Archibald Sinclair, what plans had been drawn up to carry out these proposals.

He passed on the request to Sir Charles Portal, the Chief of the Air Staff, who answered that " We should use available effort in one big attack on Berlin and attacks on Dresden, Leipzig, and Chemnitz, or any other cities where a severe blitz will not only cause confusion in the evacuation from the East, but will also hamper the movement of troops from the West ".

Aerial operations were split into two, east of Cape Tenez in Algeria, with British aircraft under Air Marshal Sir William Welsh and west of Cape Tenez, all American aircraft under Major General Jimmy Doolittle, under the direct command of Major General Patton.

Colonel Charles Edward (" Chuck ") Jones ( November 4, 1952 – September 11, 2001 ) was a United States Air Force officer, a computer programmer, and an astronaut in the USAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer Program.

For example Major General Charles J. Dunlap, Jr. says that United States Air Force culture includes an egalitarianism bred from officers as warriors who work with small groups of enlisted airmen either as the service crew or onboard crew of their aircraft.

* Ravenstein, Charles, A., Air Force Combat Wings 1947 – 1977, Office of Air Force History, USAF, 1984.

* On June 6, 2011, Air France began service using the Airbus A380 on its Paris Charles de Gaulle airport to Washington Dulles International Airport route.

* Charles Schulz interview ( 12 minutes ), Fresh Air, National Public Radio, December 1990

During the late fifties until the late sixties when Charles de Gaulle ended the American military presence, the U. S. Army and U. S. Air Force had an array of military installations in France, including a major Army logistics and communications hub in Poitiers, part of what was called the Communication Zone ( ComZ ), and consisting of a logistics headquarters and communications agency located at Aboville Caserne, a military compound situated on a hill above the city.

* 2005-2008 Lt. Gen. Charles E. Croom, Jr., United States Air Force

Following the Battle of France, General Charles de Gaulle formed the 1ère Compagnie d ’ Infanterie de l ’ Air in September 1940 from members of the Free French forces who had escaped to Britain.

When Charles Portal was made Chief of the Air Staff in October 1940 he supported Douglas, moving Park and Dowding and appointing Douglas to replace Dowding as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief ( AOCinC ) of Fighter Command.

In 1929, Earhart was among the first aviators to promote commercial air travel through the development of a passenger airline service ; along with Charles Lindbergh, she represented Transcontinental Air Transport ( TAT ) and invested time and money in setting up the first regional shuttle service between New York and Washington, DC.

* Charles " Chuck " Yeager ( b. 1923 ) — U. S. Air Force test pilot and retired brigadier general, most notable as the first man to break the sound barrier ( 1948 )

* Air Marshal Sir Kenneth Charles Michael Giddings CB OBE DFC AFC and Bar, born in Walthamstow in 1920.

* Sally Hemings: An American Scandal, a CBS television miniseries ( Air dates: 2 / 13 / 00 and 2 / 16 / 00 ; Writer: Tina Andrews Director: Charles Haid ; With Carmen Ejogo as Hemings and Sam Neill as Thomas Jefferson ) As PBS noted in a Frontline program, " Though many quarrelled with the portrayal of Hemings as unrealistically modern and heroic, no major historian challenged the series ' premise that Hemings and Jefferson had a 38-year relationship that produced children.

An additional Yanks Air Museum facility will be built in Greenfield on a plot purchased in 1994 by museum founders Charles and Judith Nichols.

A few weeks later, on November 16, 1956, Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson directed the Army to transfer of North Camp Cooke to the United States Air Force for use as a missile launch and training base.

* Local parks managed by the Weed Parks and Recreation District include: Lincoln Park ( renamed Charles Byrd Community Park in 2004 ) which is an park with restrooms, a playground, basketball courts, and is the home to the Weed Skatepark ; as well as Bel Air Park, adjacent to College of the Siskiyous and home to the community swimming pool.

During World War II, a United States Army Air Forces air base ( now the Charles M. Schulz – Sonoma County Airport ) was built in southern Windsor, and it was typical to hear fighter aircraft and bombers flying over the town.

Army Colonel Charles Thomas, originally from Atlanta, landed at the Herbert Smart Airport near Camp Wheeler near Macon in October, 1941 to oversee the building of the location which would later become the home to Wellston Air Depot at Robins Field ( later to become Robins AFB ).

Some residents work for the Charles County government, while others commute to Waldorf or the Washington, D. C. and Baltimore areas for work, including to Andrews Air Force Base and Naval Air Station Patuxent River.