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.

" Manami Matsumae, who had composed the music for the first Mega Man, also made some contributions to the soundtrack of this game, in particular the title screen overture ( which she had previously written for the first game's ending ) and the music for Air Man's level.

At the time of the game's release there was heavy speculation surrounding a missing aircraft in the United States Air Force's numbering system, the F-19.

During the time of the game's release there was heavy speculation surrounding a missing aircraft in the United States Air Force's numbering system, the F-19.

With Hitler preoccupied with the war, Himmler focusing on the " final solution to the Jewish question " in eastern Europe, and with Hermann Göring ’ s position declining with the failure of the German Air Force ( Luftwaffe ), Goebbels sensed a power vacuum in domestic policy and moved to fill it.

* The final level of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater is located in a version of the Roswell Army Air Field, in which UFOs and studies on aliens can be spotted.

The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, Enterprises final home, can be seen below

In a final atavistic attempt at revenge, the government orders a nuclear strike by a single aircraft from a local Air Force base.

At 09: 01, two minutes before impact as United Airlines Flight 175 continued its descent into Lower Manhattan, the New York Center alerted another nearby Air Traffic Facility responsible for low-flying aircraft, which was able to monitor the aircraft's path over New Jersey, and then over Staten Island and New York Harbor in its final moments.

* The dismantled Launch Pad 34 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station bears two memorial plaques: One reads, They gave their lives in service to their country in the ongoing exploration of humankind's final frontier.

President Carter honored him by giving him command of Air Force One for his final trip to Washington on October 23.

The GCVTC released its final report in 1996 and initiated the Western Regional Air Partnership ( WRAP ), a partnership of state, tribal and federal agencies to help coordinate implementation of the Commission ’ s recommendations.

The final Parnall aircraft was an open two-seater trainer derivative of the Heck to Air Ministry Specification T. 1 / 37 named the Parnall 382, later the Heck III.

In 2007 and 2008, the top eight teams advanced to the playoffs ; in what was intended to be the final season of the Air New Zealand Cup format in 2009, the Shaughnessy format was used, with the top four advancing to the finals.

In memory of the brave heroes of the Battle of La Concepcion in 1882, on 10 July each year, the very day the final Chilean soldiers in La Concepcion died in defense of the Chilean nation, this Pledge to the Flag ( Juramento de la Bandera ) is recited at all installations and military bases of the Chilean Army, Chilean Navy and Chilean Air Force across the nation in remembrance of this great moment in Chilean history.

The decision to terminate the Shuttle / Centaur program spurred the United States Air Force to create the Titan IV, which, in its 401A / B versions, used the Centaur-T, also with a 14-foot-diameter ( 4. 3 m ) hydrogen tank, as its final stage.

The group released the albums Dead Air ( 1993 ) and Cop and Speeder ( 1994 ) as well as the Yellow No. 5 EP ( 1994 ) on Frontier Records, and were then signed to Virgin Records to release what became their final album, Mic City Sons ( 1996 ).

Fehmarn was also the location of Jimi Hendrix's final concert, at the Open Air Love & Peace Festival, on September 6, 1970.

Palmdale refers to itself with the nickname the " aerospace capital of the United States ", and has been the site of research, development, final assembly, flight testing and / or servicing / modifications of the Space Shuttle, B-1 Lancer, X-15, B-2 Spirit, F-117 Nighthawk, F-35 Lightning II, SR-71 Blackbird, Lockheed L-1011 Tristar, and many other aircraft that have been used in the United States Air Force, NASA and air forces and airlines around the world.

The final land acquisition at Vandenberg occurred on March 1, 1966, after the Air Force had announced plans to construct Space Launch Complex 6 for its Manned Orbiting Laboratory ( MOL ) program.

On 22 April 1960, the fourth and final British-based Thor IRBM squadron was turned over to the Royal Air Force by the Strategic Air Command, thus completing the deployment of this weapon system in the United Kingdom.

Air Force Systems Command conducted the final Peacekeeper launch from the aboveground TP-01 launch pad on 30 June 1985.

The final 70-80 employees were relocated to the former Air 2000 offices at Gatwick Airport.

Berrigan's final Plowshares action was in December 1999, when he and others banged on A-10 Warthog warplanes in an anti-war protest at the Warfield Air National Guard Base.

They arrived two days later at the Sacramento Air Depot for final modifications.

An Air Astana Boeing 757-200 on short final to the airport in 2008.

Flight AC7067 was captained by Jean-Marc Bélanger, a former head of the Air Canada Pilots Association, while Captain Robert Pearson and Maurice Quintal were on board to oversee the flight from Montreal to California's Mojave Airport, its final resting place.