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.

This project was carried out under sponsorship of the Ballistic Missile Division of the Air Research and Development Command, U.S. Air Force, and had as its goal the investigation of the transport by diffusion of the heat energy of chemical binding.

From 1992 to 1995, the goal was to produce a radio for the U. S. Army which could operate from 2 MHz to 2 GHz, and operate with ground force radios ( frequency-agile VHF, FM, and SINCGARS ), Air Force radios ( VHF AM ), Naval Radios ( VHF AM and HF SSB teleprinters ) and satellites ( microwave QAM ).

In its " Pink Air " ads, Fina ( then undergoing a major expansion of its marketing territory which encompassed the Mid-Continent region from Texas to Minnesota ) noted that Pink Air was arriving at new FINA stations as fast as they could be opened and set a goal of having Pink Air in all of its stations by May 1966-five years later.

The Air Force had also started their Lunex Project in 1958, also with a goal of building a manned lunar outpost.

The Bulldogs faked a field goal, but holder Jason Simpson's pass to Giachino Chiaramonte fell incomplete in the end zone and Air Force claimed the inaugural Silicon Valley Classic.

Air hockey is a game for two competing players trying to score points in the opposing player's goal.

On April 16 in Game Four at the Air Canada Centre, Ed made 72 saves before losing 3-2 on an overtime goal by Mark Recchi.

After outlining several problems their Senate committee had found, they asserted that Texas Air was not meeting its " obligation to provide a reasonable level of service to its passengers " and requested that Texas Air work toward that goal and provide a " prompt response ".

The Air Force, even though the New Look enhanced its role, opposed the decision to cut back from the Truman goal of 143 wings, and its congressional supporters tried repeatedly, sometimes successfully, to appropriate more money for air power than the administration wanted.

Their ultimate goal is a world-wide federation of Air Traffic Controllers ’ Associations.

In his 1968 Statement of Intent ( undated ), he wrote, " I have applied for pilot training with the goal of making flying a lifetime pursuit and I believe I can best accomplish this to my own satisfaction by serving as a member of the Air National Guard as long as possible.

In 1955, the Air Force decided that the goal of Blue Book should be not to investigate UFO reports, but rather to reduce the number of unidentified UFO reports to a minimum.

He argued toward working toward a goal of 143 Air Force wings ( as compared with 95 then authorized ) and a larger military.

This arrangement lasted only until the War Department implemented the executive order on May 24 by issuing General Order No. 51 to coordinate the two independent agencies, with an eventual goal of creating a Director of Air Service.

The goal is to attack the Japanese Air Fleet that bombed the players ' American Aircraft Carrier, pursue all Japanese Air and Sea forces, fly through the 16 levels of play, make their way to the Japanese battleship Yamato and destroy her.

Today, ESC is pursuing a major initiative to standardize and upgrade C2ISR capabilities at Air Operations Centers, with the goal of realizing the Aerospace Operations Center of the future.

The need for this new level of latent defect detection was driven by the goal to start automating the thinking and planning processes of the air traffic controller as envisioned by the Automated Enroute Air Traffic Control ( AERA ) program.

Denton, along with James Stockdale ( another Navy officer who became the vice-presidential running mate of H. Ross Perot during his 1992 presidential campaign ), Larry Guarino ( an Air Force Major ) and James Robinson Risner ( an Air Force colonel ), distinguished themselves as members of the American POW resistance from 1965-1973, and helped their men accomplish their sworn goal to " return with honor " – a POW battle cry that later was used as the title of a documentary film narrated and produced by Tom Hanks.

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.

A Delta II ELV launching the Dawn ( spacecraft ) | Dawn spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17 | CCAFS SLC-17

Air resistance damps the oscillation, so some Foucault pendulums in museums incorporate an electromagnetic or other drive to keep the bob swinging ; others are restarted regularly, sometimes with a launching ceremony as an added attraction.

The launching of the Russian Sputnik 1 satellite into orbit on October 4, 1957, followed a month later by Sputnik 2 that carried a dog into space, had military implications and caused an immediate acceleration of the United States Air Force's missile program.

From 1964 to 1973 the U. S. Air Force launched 141 Athena Missiles from the Green River launching area, near the Crystal Geyser as part of research to improve nuclear missiles.

* In July 2009, Gulf Air revealed that they are planning on launching flights to Baghdad from Bahrain International Airport.

On 2 May, the commander at RAF Habbaniya, Air Vice-Marshal Harry George Smart, responded to the Iraqi demands by launching a pre-emptive strike against the Iraqi forces overlooking the air base.

TVB Pearl will continue to be one of the partner stations of SCOLAR in launching the " English in the Air 2003 / 04 " project, aiming at promoting the learning and teaching of English through television programmes for secondary school students and teachers.

The U. S. Air Force responded by launching an intense bombing operation that forced the communists back into the countryside after being decimated by the air strikes.

Yousef thought of several ways to kill the president, including placing nuclear bombs on Clinton's motorcade route, firing a Stinger missile at Air Force One or the presidential limousine, launching theater ballistic missiles at Manila and or killing him with phosgene, a chemical weapon.

That mission was cancelled after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster and SLC-6 was closed when the Air Force went back to launching satellites on the Titan III and Titan IV rockets.

* May 2 – The Anglo-Iraqi War between British forces and a pro-Axis Iraqi government begins with 41 Royal Air Force Station Habbaniya-and Shaibah-based Royal Air Force planes launching a surprise attack against Iraqi forces surrounding Habbaniya and Iraqi airfields.

** 110 U. S. Army Air Forces Eighth Air Force B-24 Liberator bombers escorted by 183 P-47 Thunderbolt fighters attack a German V-1 flying bomb sites under construction at Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise / Siracourt, France and V-2 ballistic missile launching site under construction at Watten, France.

* April 16 – The United States Navy conducts the first catapult launch of an aircraft from a floating platform, launching an airplane from Navy Coal Barge No. 214 at Naval Air Station Pensacola at Pensacola, Florida.

After launching on April 26, 1993, on the Shuttle Columbia ; the crew landed 10 days later on May 6, 1993, at Edwards Air Force Base, California.

Both groups had also developed plans for manned lunar bases, ABMA's Horizon with its Earth Orbit Rendezvous method of building a large lunar rocket in Earth orbit, and the Air Force's Lunex Project which planned on launching a single huge lander using the largest of the SLS configurations.

Searfoss served as STS-58 pilot on the seven-person life science research mission aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, launching from the Kennedy Space Center on October 18, 1993, and landing at Edwards Air Force Base on November 1, 1993.

The U. S. Air Force was already launching Blue Scout rockets from Cape Canaveral and launched this one as well.

Under Stonecipher's tenure, the Air Force had lifted a 20-month suspension of Boeing's launching systems group, which had been involved in one of the scandals, allowing them to bid on Pentagon contracts again.

The Pakistan Air Force ( PAF ) is believed to have practiced " toss-bombing " in the 1980s and 1990s, a method of launching weapons from fighter-bombers which can also be used to deliver nuclear warheads.

The Naval Air Warfare Center consists of both the NAS Point Mugu airfield and a rocket launching site for the U. S. Navy.

By 1986, there were 32 operational cruise missile launching installations in England ( RAF Greenham Common and RAF Molesworth ), Belgium ( Florennes Air Base ), and on Sicily ( Comiso Air Base ).