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1960–61 speed of 614 miles per hour before opening his parachute. This was the highest jump and longest free fall on record. August 19: Piloting a C–119, Capt. Harold F. Mitchell, USAF, retrieved the Discoverer XIV reentry capsule in midair, marking the first successful aerial recovery of a returning space capsule. August 30: With six Atlas missiles ready to launch, the 564th Strategic Missile Squadron at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming, became the first fully operational intercontinental ballistic missile squadron. September 21: In a ceremony at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, Tactical Air Command accepted the first Republic F–105D Thunderchief, an allweather fighter able to carry a nuclear weapon. 1961 January 31: The Mercury space capsule life-support system was first tested on a space mission, carrying a chimpanzee named Ham. February 1: The ballistic missile early warning system site at Thule, Greenland, became operational. Subsequently, other sites became operational at Clear, Alaska, and Fylingdales in the United Kingdom. Operated by the North American Air Defense Command, the system could provide the United States warning of an impending Soviet missile attack in time to respond. February 1: The Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile was launched for the first time at Cape Canaveral, Florida, in a major test. Under full guidance, it traveled 4,600 miles to its target area. The solid-fueled Minuteman could be stored more easily and fired more quickly than the liquid-fueled Atlas and Titan intercontinental ballistic missiles. February 3: As part of a project called “LOOKING GLASS,” Strategic Air Command began flying EC–135s to provide a 24-hour-a-day airborne command post for the president and secretary of defense in case enemy attack wiped out land-based command and control sites that controlled strategic bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles. February 13: The Air Force first launched its solid-fueled air-to-surface missile, the GAM–83B Bullpup, from an F–100 Super Sabre. The missile could fly at supersonic speed, carry a nuclear weapon, and be guided to its target by the pilot of the launching aircraft. March 7: Strategic Air Command declared the Quail operational. The B–52 would use this missile (GAM–72A) as a diversionary device. 88
April 12: Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics became the first person to be launched into space and the first to orbit Earth. April 14: At Hurlburt Field, Florida, the Air Force activated the 4400th Combat Crew Training Squadron—its first special-operations unit since the Korean War. April 19: Alabama Air National Guard B–26 crew members Riley Shamburger, Wade C. Gray, Pete W. Ray, and Leo F. Baker were killed while flying special-operations missions during the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. May 5: By making a suborbital flight in Mercury capsule Freedom 7, Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard, Jr., United States Navy, became the first U.S. astronaut in space. Recovery of Mercury capsule Freedom 7 on May 5, 1961 1961 May 26: A B–58 Hustler supersonic bomber from the 43d Bombardment Wing set a speed record, flying from New York to Paris in three hours, 19 minutes, 41 seconds at an average speed of 1,302 miles per hour. The crew, consisting of Maj. William R. Payne, Capt. William L. Polhemus, and Capt. Raymond Wagener, won the Mackay Trophy for this flight. 89
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PREFACE Commemorating the first cen
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and space power, not only for wagin
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1906-7 Orville and Wilbur Wright. T
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1908-9 September 17: Lt. Thomas E.
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1910-11 August 18: At Fort Sam Hous
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1911 July 19: Orville Wright delive
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1912-13 A Curtiss G tractor biplane
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1914-15 when Russia refused to stop
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1916-17 May 20: Lt. Col. George O.
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1918 February 5: Lt. Stephen W. Tho
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1918 June 12: The 96th Aero Squadro
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1919 Personnel of the 11th Aero Squ
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1921 Martin MB-2 bomber. Air Servic
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1924 The NBL-1 Barling bomber could
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1927 1927 May 2: Maj. Herbert A. Da
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1929-31 August 15: Flying a Buhl se
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1932-33 1932 March 20: The Boeing X
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1934-35 March 10: The Army Air Corp
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1937-38 April 12: Frank Whittle tes
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1940-41 July 8: The Air Corps estab
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Page 46 and 47: 1941-42 December 8: Within hours of
Page 48 and 49: 1942 May 7-8: The Battle of the Cor
Page 50 and 51: 1942 August 20: The Army Air Forces
Page 52 and 53: 1943 January 13: The Army Air Force
Page 54 and 55: 1943 April 18: In P-38 aircraft ove
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Page 58 and 59: 1943-44 December 24: A total of 670
Page 60 and 61: 1944 April 25: Lt. Carter Harman of
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Page 64 and 65: 1945 Command dropped two Allied air
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Page 68 and 69: 1947-48 October 14: Capt. Charles E
Page 70 and 71: 1948-49 July 20: Sixteen F-80 Shoot
Page 72 and 73: 1949-50 May 11: President Harry S.
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Page 76 and 77: 1950-51 December 20: In Operation C
Page 78 and 79: 1951 The Douglas C-124 Globemaster
Page 80 and 81: 1952-53 September 30: The Bell Rasc
Page 82 and 83: 1954 1954 March 1: The United State
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Page 92 and 93: 1959 June 3: The Air Force Academy
Page 96 and 97: 1961-62 June 1: At Kincheloe Air Fo
Page 98 and 99: 1962-63 tal ballistic missile when
Page 100 and 101: 1964-65 craft was a strategic bombe
Page 102 and 103: 1965 June 3-7: Maj. James A. McDivi
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Page 108 and 109: 1967 The F-111, sometimes called th
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Page 114 and 115: 1970 April 14: A C-141 Starlifter c
Page 116 and 117: 1971-72 nonstop flight, at times at
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Page 120 and 121: 1973-75 involved the resources of M
Page 122 and 123: 1975-76 May 15: Cambodia returned t
Page 124 and 125: 1976-77 earthquake. The aircraft al
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1991 138 helicopter to rescue the p
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1991-92 later provided aerial prote
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1992 ended on February 28 of the ne
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1993 June 17: Lt. Col. Patricia For
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1994 Galeb attack aircraft over Bos
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1995 April 8: Despite being hit 12
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1996-97 during its development phas
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1997-98 September 7: At Dobbins Air
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1999 1999 January 24: A Navy F-18 l
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1999-2000 Treaty of 1977. The Unite
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2001 April 23: The RQ-4A Global Haw
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2001 Lockheed Martin’s X-35A Join
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2002 May 13: President George W. Bu
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