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.

The base lies within the United States Air Force's vast Nevada Test and Training Range ( NTTR ), formerly called the Nellis Air Force Range ( NAFR ).

The-6a was also selected to arm the Air Force's F-110A Spectre ( F-4 Phantom ) fighters in 1962, known to them as the AIM-101.

In 1987, the Library of Congress Country Study said that the Air Force's official name, Ivoirian Air Transport and Liaison Group ( Groupement Aérien de Transport et de Liaison -- GATL ), ' reflects an original mission focused more on logistics and transport rather than a combat force.

The US Air Force's first operational surface-to-surface missile was the winged, mobile, nuclear-capable MGM-1 Matador, also similar in concept to the V-1.

The Air Force's stated mission is to perform counterinsurgency operations within Ghana and to provide logistical support to the army.

* 2012 – The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission.

Despite causing severe damage to the Royal Air Force's infrastructure and British cities during the subsequent Blitz, it failed to achieve the air superiority Hitler demanded for Operation Sea Lion.

* 1997 – Kelly Flinn, US Air Force's first female bomber pilot certified for combat, accepts a general discharge in order to avoid a court martial.

In the early 1960s, the U. S. Air Force's rifle, the M16, and the Army's XM16E1, were the first versions of the M16 rifle fielded.

In the United States, the United States Navy's Commander, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command oversees meteorological efforts for the Navy and Marine Corps while the United States Air Force's Air Force Weather Agency is responsible for the Air Force and Army.

A participant in the U. S. Air Force's Man in Space Soonest and X-20 Dyna-Soar human spaceflight programs, Armstrong joined the NASA Astronaut Corps in 1962.

Among these were the killing of CEO of MTU Aero Engines, a German engineering company, Ernst Zimmermann ; another bombing at the US Air Force's Rhein-Main Air Base ( near Frankfurt ), which targeted the base commander and killed two bystanders ; the car bomb attack that killed Siemens executive Karl-Heinz Beckurts and his driver ; and the shooting of Gerold von Braunmühl, a leading official at Germany's foreign ministry.

The United States Air Force's Project RAND eventually released the above report, but did not believe that the satellite was a potential military weapon ; rather, they considered it to be a tool for science, politics, and propaganda.

Brilliant Eyes was renamed Space and Missile Tracking System ( SMTS ) and scaled back further under BMDO, and in the late 1990s it became the low earth orbit component of the Air Force's Space Based Infrared System ( SBIRS ).

The Royal Australian Air Force rank of Warrant Officer ( WOFF ) is the Air Force's only rank appointed by warrant and is equivalent to both the Army's WO1 and the Navy's WO ( the equivalent of the Army's WO2 is a Flight Sergeant ).

* May 22 – Kelly Flinn, the U. S. Air Force's first female bomber pilot certified for combat, accepts a general discharge in order to avoid a court martial.

* February 22 – United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe organized from the Eighth Air Force's strategic planning staff ; subsuming strategic planning for all US Army Air Forces in Europe and Africa.

After World War II, the generals of the newly-formed U. S. Air Force propounded a new doctrine: that strategic bombing, particularly with nuclear weapons, was the sole decisive element necessary to win any future war ; and was therefore the sole means necessary to deter an adversary from launching a Pearl Harbor like surprise attack or war against the United States.

The United States Air Force, for example, has retrospectively contended that it never advocated MAD as a sole strategy, and that this form of deterrence was seen as one of numerous options in U. S. nuclear policy.

In the defence of Diu, the Vega with a crew of 6, confronted the INS New Delhi, a battle cruiser with over 1200 crew, plus various attacks from Indian Air Force Canberra jet bombers using its sole machine-gun for defence.

Although under ACC, it is best known for its role as the location of the Air Force Materiel Command's 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group ( AMARG ), better known as the sole aircraft boneyard for all excess military and government aircraft, as its location allows for preservation of the aircraft.

Although under ACC, it is best known for its role as the location of the Air Force Materiel Command's 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group ( AMARG ), better known as the sole aircraft boneyard for all excess military and government aircraft.

With a variety of items on loan from the National Museum of the United States Air Force, including an inert Titan II missile, Site 571-7 is now known as the Titan Missile Museum and is the sole remaining example of a Titan II missile site in existence.

It was not long before the Air Force proposed a $ 447, 000 appropriation for construction of an airport in Negaunee Township which would allow the Air Force sole use of the base.

It was announced on 20 November 2007 that Continental Aviation Services ( Nigeria ) Ltd has bought all of the business and assets ( including the sole remaining DC10 aircraft ), however the liabilities remain with Das Air Ltd.

In June 2006, aircraft from Freedom Air were combined with Air New Zealand's fleet of Airbus A320-200 under the Air Operators Certificate ( AOC ) of Zeal320 Limited, which was then the sole operator of the Air New Zealand Group's Airbus fleet.

* Rather than the purpose as well as the method of the raid being Wallis ' sole idea, the dams had already been identified as an important target by the Air Ministry before the war.

SATA Air Açores became the major shareholder when OceanAir suspended flying in 1994 and later became the sole owner.

Their sole objective is to discover and show hidden things, the secrets of any person, and obtain, carry and do anything asked to them meanwhile they are contained in any of the four elements ( Earth, Fire, Air and Water ).

The Air Guard ’ s sole C-5 Galaxy unit, the 137th Airlift Squadron, 105th Airlift Wing, Newburgh, New York, also contributed to the operation.

This also brought Fleet Air Wing Four to an end on 1 April 1970, leaving Patrol Squadron SIXTY-NINE ( VP-69 ), a Naval Air Reserve squadron, as the sole remaining maritime patrol squadron at NAS Whidbey.

With the exception of a forward deployed EA-6B squadron at NAF Atsugi, Japan and a sole Naval Air Reserve EA-6B squadron ( VAQ-209 ) at Andrews AFB / NAF Washington, Maryland, NAS Whidbey Island supports all of the U. S. Navy ’ s Prowler squadrons.

* Ernest Borgnine — Dominic Santini ( sole proprietor of Santini Air )

The Syrian Air Force claimed its sole kill of the war on 10 July when a Harvard supposedly shot down an Avia S-199 flown by Lionel Bloch.

These were the Berlin Air Safety Center and Spandau Prison ( which was demolished in 1987 when Rudolf Hess, the sole remaining prisoner, died ).

Lackland is best known for its role in being the sole location for U. S. Air Force enlisted Basic Military Training ( BMT ) for the Active Duty Air Force, Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard.

Ten days later, Fifteenth Air Force was assigned to the command as its first Numbered Air Force.

At the highest level, five Numbered Air Forces served within the command at various times, the Second Air Force, Eighth Air Force, Fifteenth Air Force, Sixteenth Air Force, and briefly, in 1991 – 92, the Twentieth Air Force.

Operationally-gained by ACC, 1 AF is the only Numbered Air Force in the Air National Guard and is responsible for all Air National Guard F-15 and F-16 fighter units.

Headquarters, First Air Force, what had predominantly been the Numbered Air Force for the Air National Guard, moved from Langley AFB, Virginia, to Tyndall.

A numbered flight is a unit with a unique base, wing, group, or Numbered Air Force mission, such as training or finance, though not large enough to warrant designation as a squadron.

) under First, Second, Third and Fourth Air Force were all were placed under the unified command of the Continental Air Forces ( CAF ) on 13 December 1944, with the Numbered Air Forces becoming subordinate commands of CAF.

During the Cold War, it was one of the five Numbered Air Forces of Strategic Air Command ( SAC ), commanding USAF strategic bombers and missiles on a global scale.

On 13 December 1944, First, Second, Third and Fourth Air Force were all placed under the unified command of the Continental Air Forces ( CAF ) with the Numbered Air Forces becoming subordinate commands of CAF.

In what was effectively a redesignation, the headquarters staff and resources were used to create Fifteenth Air Force, which became the first Numbered Air Force of the new Strategic Air Command ten days later.