He was, and is, with the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit pool of thinkers financed by the U.S. Air Force.

BMEWS intelligence is simultaneously flashed to NORAD ( North American Air Defense Command ) in Colorado Springs, Colorado, for interpretation ; ;

the Army, Navy and Air Force, among others, may question Secretary Freeman's claim that the high estate of United States agriculture is the `` strongest deterrent '' to the spread of communism.

Air Force life is great, the cadet wrote, `` though the fourth-class system is no fun ''.

The Strategic Air Command is the principal element of our long-range nuclear capability.

* 1918 – The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.

* 1924 – The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.

Atma ( Soul ) merges into " Parmatma " or the greatest soul. According to Bhagwadgita an " Atma " or soul never dies, what dies is the body only made of five elements-Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Sky.

* 1972 – In an unsuccessful coup d ' état attempt, the Royal Moroccan Air Force fires upon Hassan II of Morocco's plane while he is traveling back to Rabat.

* 1994 – Eugene Bullard, the only black pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.

The CAB investigation of the accident is the first investigation to be conducted under the Bureau of Air Commerce act of 1938.

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.

Area 51 is a military base, and a remote detachment of Edwards Air Force Base.

Although the facilities at the range are managed by the 99th Air Base Wing at Nellis Air Force Base, the Groom facility appears to be run as an adjunct of the Air Materiel Command Air Force Flight Test Center ( AFFTC ) at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, around southwest of Groom, and as such the base is known as Air Force Flight Test Center ( Detachment 3 ).

* 1955 – The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.

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.

A replica of the Wright Brothers ' wind tunnel is on display at the Virginia Air and Space Center.

As an Air Force psychiatrist put it: `` You can't have dry runs on this one ''.

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.

Jerry McCauley of Sacramento, Calif., one of some twenty Air Force recruits on board, awoke from a nap in confusion.

He took two medals, leaving one on the Moon and donating the other to the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base museum.

He may have been one of three hijackers that listed the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida as their permanent address on drivers ' licenses, though other sources claim he listed the Delray condominium.

In 2005 FAB received one Airbus ACJ, callsign " Air Force One " and dubbed as " Santos Dumont.

They are used to strike enemy positions by the Chadian Air Force, but one has been shot down by rebels.

Air is one of the four classical elements in ancient Greek philosophy and science.

Air was one of many archai proposed by the Pre-socratics, most of whom tried to reduce all things to a single substance.

Air is one of the five elements that appear in most Wiccan and Pagan traditions.

The Army, twice as large as the other services combined with about 24, 000 active duty personnel, consists of six infantry brigades, a combat support brigade, an air cavalry squadron and a combat service support brigade ; the Air Force operates two main bases, one in southern region near Santo Domingo and one in the northern region of the country, the air force operates approximately 40 aircraft including helicopters ; and the Navy maintains three aging vessels which were donated from the United States, around 25 patrol crafts and interceptor boats and two helicopters.

Two F-106 fighter aircraft scrambled from nearby McChord Air Force Base followed behind the airliner, one above it and one below, out of Cooper's view.

* 2009 – Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo-Niagara International Airport, killing all on board and one on the ground.

Greenland has one publicly owned station, some local low-power stations, and three American Forces Network stations, operated by the United States Air Force.

The Air Circus is Hawks's first film centered around aviation, one of his early loves.

Other Irish airlines are Ryanair, one of the largest in the world, Aer Arann, CityJet, Air Contractors and the newly launched Aer Lingus subsidiary Aer Lingus Regional.

An Air Step is a dance move in which at least one of the partners ' two feet leave the ground in a dramatic, acrobatic style.

At that time, the army was organised into 11 Border Defence and 4 Security Zones, one regime security brigade, 10 Tank Battalions, 10 Mechanized Infantry Battalions, 18 Infantry Battalions, 6 Commando Battalions, 22 Artillery Battalions, 4 SSM Brigade and 7 Air Defence Artillery Battalions.

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

He wrote, " I do not know what this Aether is ", but that if it consists of particles then they must be " exceedingly smaller than those of Air, or even than those of Light: The exceeding smallness of its Particles may contribute to the greatness of the force by which those Particles may recede from one another, and thereby make that Medium exceedingly more rare and elastic than Air, and by consequence exceedingly less able to resist the motions of Projectiles, and exceedingly more able to press upon gross Bodies, by endeavoring to expand itself.

This programme came about when Russia agreed to transport one Malaysian to the International Space Station as part of a multi-billion dollar purchase of 18 Russian Sukhoi Su-30MKM fighter jets by the Royal Malaysian Air Force.

The new terminal is intended for the service of one million passengers and the space liberated from low-cost airlines would pass into the disposition of Estonian Air and other traditional airlines, such as Lufthansa, SAS, LOT and CSA.

Starved Air Incineration is an improvement of the traditional incinerators in terms of air pollution.

* The 2012 CBC TV drama series Arctic Air features a theme song written by Tim McCauley and performed by Tanya Tagaq incorporating elements of traditional Inuit throat singing over a modern dance beat.

Air temperatures averaged around 70 – 80 degrees Celsius ( 160 – 180 degrees Fahrenheit ) but sometimes exceeded 90 ° C ( 200 ° F ) in a traditional Finnish sauna.

Air Force has traditional service academy rivalries with Navy and Army.

The host wing at Eglin is the 96th Air Base Wing ( 96 ABW ) whose mission consists of supporting the Air Armament Center and the myriad of tenant commands and associate units with traditional military services as well as all the services of a small city, to include civil engineering, personnel, logistics, communications, computer, medical, security, and all other host services.

: The 96 ABW supports the Air Armament Center and other tenant units of the installation with traditional military services as well as all the services of a small city, to include civil engineering, personnel, logistics, communications, computer, medical, security.

1 AF primarily consists of Active Guard and Reserve ( AGR ) and Air Reserve Technician ( ART ) personnel of the Air National Guard ( ANG ), augmented by additional part-time " traditional " Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve personnel.

During the ceremony, an Air Force band led the singing of " God Bless America " as NASA T-38 Talon supersonic jets flew directly over the scene in the traditional missing-man formation.

Air policing is a traditional task of the German Air Force.

The wing performs both Federal and State missions and consists of approximately 1000 Air National Guard personnel, both full-time Active Guard and Reserve ( AGR ) and Air Reserve Technicians ( ART ), as well as traditional part-time guardsmen, available for worldwide deployment in support of Air Mobility Command and combatant commander tasking.

As well as the thriving no-frills segment, Prestwick has continued its traditional strategic role as a refuelling point for military aircraft – the USAF, RAF and the Canadian Forces Air Command are frequent visitors for example.

In addition to the four Elemental Watchtowers, a twenty-square cell known as the Tablet of Union ( aka The Black Cross )( representing Spirit ) completes the representation of the five traditional elemental attributes used in magic-Earth, Air, Water, Fire and Spirit.

Again, these represent the traditional five magical elements ( Earth, Air, Water, Fire and Spirit ) though in varying combinations.

The 165 AW, to include the collocated Georgia ANG Combat Readiness Training Center, ( CRTC ) consists of over 310 full-time Active Guard and Reserve ( AGR ) and Air Reserve Technician ( ART ) personnel, and over 700 additional " traditional " part-time air national guardsmen.

The wing is the host unit for the base, which has over 1, 100 Air National Guard personnel, both full-time Active Guard and Reserve ( AGR ) and Air Reserve Technicians ( ART ), as well as part-time traditional air national guardsmen.