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In 1916, Major Mitchell became the temporary head of the Aeronautical Division of the Signal Corp. Mitchell took the position of authority very serious and he became a student pilot being trained by the aviation pioneer Glenn Curtis (Miller). He chose to pursue this interest at his own expense paying $1470 for training (Miller). On his first solo flight Mitchell flipped the aircraft upside down while landing, this won him the honor of having this maneuver named the “Mitchell” (Miller). This…

A-10 proves it can land pretty much anywhere Since July 20th, four A-10s from the 354th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron of US Air force have practiced landing at an airfield that that has been decommissioned since 2000, near Nowe Miasto, in Poland. The cracked, crumbling runway is in bad shape from long lack of any maintenance, as the past Polish unit stationed there used helicopters, and conditions at the former Warsaw Pact airfield are poor in general. Not a problem for the A-10, which is…

POSITION PAPER ON POSTPONING THE RETIREMENT OF THE A-10 1. The Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II is currently the only close air support (CAS) dedicated aircraft in the United States (US) inventory.1 The A-10 was the first airframe which was designed specifically for the role of CAS and is a simple aircraft to maintain.2 The US Air Force (USAF) has effectively employed the A-10 in a variety of combat applications since its first flight at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base (AFB) in the fall…

studies concluded that it would be the United States Navy (Hickman, Vietnam War: F-4 Phantom II, 2015). The predecessor to the F-4 Phantom II was the F-3H Demon. In 1953, McDonnell took the Demon and set out to improve on it to create an all-weather fighter bomber (Hickman, Vietnam War: F-4 Phantom II, 2015). The United States Navy mandated the requirements that the new jet be no bigger than the Demon, and to be able to operate from an aircraft carrier. Since the Phantoms creation,…

Warbirds World War Two was a perfect time for the creation, development, and implementation of weapons of all kinds, as any history buff knows. This makes it a fascinating period to study for nearly any weapons enthusiast. One particular area that was greatly pioneered during the war was aircraft. Most air forces at the outset of the war were still flying World War One vintage along with a few slightly newer models developed in the Twenties and Thirties. The only air force that had begun…

One of the planes that the ship had had was a fighter plane, which had two guns on the front and one in the back for the passenger to defend the backside of the plane with. The biggest and baddest plane on the USS Yorktown was a carrier plane that flew up to one hundred twenty-five people at one time…

WWI had many factors deciding the outcome of the war. Some of which were the war on the ground, in the water, and in the air. The war in the air was significant because it provided reconnaissance, carpet bombing, and dogfighting. "In the summer of 1914, the airplane was less than eleven years old" (SparkNotes. "World War I (1914-1919)". http://www.sparknotes.com/history/european/ww1/section5.rhtml. Accessed April 24, 2016.). WWI was one of the first instances in warfare where aircraft was used…

Although the Allies were composed of many more countries’ militaries, the United States and United Kingdom provided the majority of the air power for the Allied forces. The United States Army Air Force, which had the largest and most diverse arsenal of fighters, was a key Allied asset (Taylor and Guilmartin). Early in the war, the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) was equipped primarily with the Bell P-39 Airacobra and the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk (later versions were referred to as the…

Drones, UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) to point out, are aircrafts that can be controlled remotely or through pre-programmed missions. Drones are mostly slow moving but they have a huge advantage of the conventional aircrafts. The difference between conventional aircrafts and drones are the fact that drones can stay airborne for up to several days at a time while conventional aircrafts just cannot. They have also been putting much work into reconnaissance technology and missile strike…

me I just have to find ways in becoming a better learner than just reading the chapter. For instance, in my job in the military I had to perform maintenance on a fighter jet, which that was easy for me because it’s all the same movements, inspections, procedures for each fighter jet, but when having to learn certain weapons onto the fighter jet there are many procedures that have to be done. If the procedures are not done correctly then the weapon would not work, or something can happen to were…