Burkina Faso owns part of Air Afrique, which provides the country with international service.

The branches of Burkina Faso's military include its Army, Air Force, National Gendarmerie, National Police, and People's Militia.

Point Air was a French airline company operating a McDonnell Douglas DC8-63 on a route from Marseille and Mulhouse / Bale to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

Celestair is an alliance of Air Burkina, Air Mali and Air Uganda.

* 8 McDonnell Douglas MD-87 ( three aircraft are operated for Air Uganda, two aircraft are operated for Air Burkina and two aircraft are operated for Air Mali ).

Air Force forward headquarters in Europe and in the Pacific, which control tactical fighters on ships and land bases ; ;

A project for the Air Force has been completed in which the NAIR infrared detecting device was developed for area monitoring of noxious or dangerous gases.

The Air Force's, and the game's, final play, was a long pass by quarterback Bob McNaughton which Gannon intercepted on his own 44 and returned 22 yards.

There are also sight-seeing overflights from Australia which fly nonstop over Antarctica and return, although overflights from New Zealand stopped after the fatal crash of Air New Zealand Flight 901 on Mount Erebus in late 1979.

* 1927 – The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.

Mueller agreed, and Phillips managed Apollo from January 1964, until it achieved the first manned landing in July 1969, after which he returned to Air Force duty.

Air felted to create the flat disk of the earth, which he said was table-like and behaved like a leaf floating on air.

" The other item was a commemorative medal issued by the United States Air Force, which was celebrating its 25th anniversary in 1972.

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 ).

The film Con Air, starring Nicolas Cage and John Malkovich, features scenes in which an aircraft is hijacked by the maximum-security prisoners on board.

An air show, also " airshow ", Air Fair, or Air Tatoo is an event at which aviators display their flying skills and the capabilities of their aircraft to spectators in aerobatics.

Colonel Kari Renko, an engineer at the Finnish Air Force, was quoted by Helsingin Sanomat as saying about this failure, " The problem involves the rocket engines which have been in use for decades " and that Finland first was told of the problems by the Americans about two years ago.

The communist-era state airline, Balkan Airlines, was replaced by Bulgaria Air, for which a private owner was to be selected from among bidders by the end of 2006.

Until recent years the Air Force suffered somewhat from fuel shortages ; a problem which was overcome in 2008.

In mid-1986 six ex-Philippine Air Force SF. 260WP Warrior armed trainers / light strike aircraft were acquired from a dealer in Belgium, which offered the FABF a much simpler and less expensive alternative in tactical air support to the expensive MiGs.

Air service is maintained by Air Burundi, which operates domestic service and flies to Rwanda, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Air drag, which is proportional to the square of speed, requires dramatically higher power outputs as speeds increase.

Other important Beech planes are the King Air / Super King Air line of twin-engine turboprops, in production since 1964, the Baron, a twin-engine variant of the Bonanza, and the Beechcraft Model 18, originally a business transport and commuter airliner from the late 1930s through the 1960s, which remains in active service as a cargo transport.

At the request of the U. S. Air Force he began formalizing his Process Maturity Framework to aid the U. S. Department of Defense in evaluating the capability of software contractors as part of awarding contracts.

Strategic Air Command began deploying Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers and aerial refueling aircraft to the newly completed airfield facilities in 1987.

Air forces began to replace or supplemented them with cannons, which fired explosive shells that could blast a hole in an enemy aircraft — rather than relying on kinetic energy from a solid bullet striking a fuel line, control cable, pilot, etc.

In November 2008 the Air Force of Zimbabwe was sent, after some police officers began refusing orders to shoot the illegal miners at Marange diamond fields.

He also developed an interest in acting as a career while in college but began thinking seriously about directing when he was in the Air Force.

" When " Air steps " or " aerials " such as the Hip to Hip, Side Flip, and Over the Back ( the names describe the motion of the woman in the air ) began to appear in 1936, the old guard of dancers such as Leon James, Leroy Jones, and Shorty Snowden disapproved of the new moves.

When the Second World War began, the Luftwaffe was one of most technologically advanced Air Forces in the world.

Aeroplan began in 1984 as Air Canada ’ s frequent flier program, but since 2008 has been owned by Groupe Aeroplan Inc. and operates as a more widely based coalition program.

Soon after Le Mans was liberated by the U. S. 79th and 90th Infantry Divisions on 8 August 1944, engineers of the Ninth Air Force IX Engineering Command began construction of a combat Advanced Landing Ground outside of the town.

The US Navy and U. S. Air Force began deploying guided missiles in the early 1950s, most famous being the US Navy's AIM-9 Sidewinder and USAF's AIM-4 Falcon.

The U. S. Army began to field the XM16E1 en masse in 1965 with most of them going to the Republic of Vietnam, and the newly organized and experimental Airmobile Divisions, the 1st Air Cavalry Division in particular.

* 1945 – The Bombing of Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces began, one of the most destructive bombing raids in history.

Beginning in August 1940, the German Luftwaffe began a series of concentrated aerial attacks ( designated Unternehmen Adlerangriff or Operation Eagle Attack ) on targets throughout the United Kingdom in an attempt to destroy the RAF ( Royal Air Force ) and establish air superiority over Great Britain.

Pollution began to draw major public attention in the United States between the mid-1950s and early 1970s, when Congress passed the Noise Control Act, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and the National Environmental Policy Act. Smog Pollution in Taiwan

The Nomad of the Time Streams trilogy by Michael Moorock, which began in 1971 with The Warlord of the Air, was also an influential precursor .< ref >

The situation began to change on 19 October 1948, when Lieutenant General Curtis LeMay assumed leadership of the Strategic Air Command, a position he held until June 1957, the longest tenure for any United States armed forces commander since Winfield Scott.

That began to change in 1948 when reports of Bikini Atoll tests were circulated among the Air Force, which made information about the bomb more available to planners and helped to convince them of its strategic capabilities.

The US Air Force was interested and began accepting bids for development systems in early 1959.

Air America was sold to a new owner in March 2007, hired well-known programmer David Bernstein, and began its " re-birth.

As a further insurance measure against both radical designs failing, in July 1947 the Air Ministry issued Specification B. 9 / 48 written around Vickers-Armstrongs ' more conservative design, later named Valiant ; work began in April 1948.

* On May 24, 1976, supersonic air travel between Dulles and Europe began with the arrival of a British Airways Concorde from London and an Air France Concorde from Paris.

* 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.

PARC's West Coast location proved to be advantageous in the mid-1970s, when the lab was able to hire many employees of the nearby SRI Augmentation Research Center as that facility's funding from DARPA, NASA, and the U. S. Air Force began to diminish.

When the film was followed by The Air Up There, they began to speculate on how many movies Bacon had been in and the number of people he had worked with.