![]() ![]() ![]() The PW-8 was based on Curtiss’ highly-successful air racers, which both Army Air Service and the Navy had used to win trophies and set speed records. Type I, like the PW-8, were single-seat Pursuit planes (air superiority fighters) equipped with water-cooled engines (like most cars), thus the “PW” prefix. From 1919-1924, the Air Service used a French-derived “Type” numbering system for aircraft based on their missions. ![]() This series was retired in 1979.ġ00 years ago today, the Army at McCook Field accepted the first Curtiss PW-8 prototype. ![]() The AQM-34V was equipped for an electronic countermeasures mission, with both active and passive jamming systems and chaff dispensers. The AQM-34V was the latest derivation of the original BQM-34 Firebee target drone introduced in 1952, which served as the basic platform for many special mission RPVs during the Vietnam War era. The vehicle was released at 15,000 feet from a DC-130 mothership, which also piloted it from a control station in the back, and was recovered by an HH-53 helicopter in a midair retrieval after reaching an altitude of 25,000 feet. Today, the Teledyne Ryan AQM-34V remotely piloted vehicle (RPV) made its first free flight at the Utah Test and Training Range at Hill AFB. Tinker began working on B-29s in 1943, becoming the B-29 overhaul center on Dec 25 of that same year. Most famously, it was B-29s Enola Gay and Bockscar that dropped the first and second atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The B-29 would see extensive use in the Pacific Theater of WWII, inflicting heavy damage to Japanese cities with its firebombing campaigns. In Jan 1945, the Oklahoma City Technical Service Command at Tinker Field was assigned the “B-29 Eagle Project.” This project was to modify the B-29 for high-altitude precision bombing missions in heavy, overcast skies, and it was completed today: May 12, 1945. Air Force’s F-86H has part of its skin removed to better show the aircraft’s internal equipment placement and configuration. It was also a fighter-bomber, capable of carrying up to 2,000 lbs. Despite being a larger and heavier airplane than the F-86A, E, or F variants flown throughout the Korean War, the F-86H had better all-around performance. Although the F-86H never saw combat, it bridged the late 1940s-era F-86 platform and North American’s upcoming supersonic F-100 Super Sabre (which had its first flight two weeks later). On this date, 70 years ago, the North American Aviation F-86H Sabre made its first flight at Edwards AFB. The DEB was decommissioned and replaced (with fiber optics) over several years beginning around 2005. military installations in and around the European Command. The DEB this reconstitution system was intended to service consisted of 83 equipment sites, built up in Belgium, England, Germany, and Italy through the 1970s and 80s, which were designed to provide connectivity to all U.S. This system consisted of trans-portable vans, manpacks, and a ground erectable tower, and was intended to be used to restore DEB communication sites damaged by sabotage or natural disaster. For his 1932 accomplishment, he was later awarded the 1934 Collier Trophy.įrom May 8-10, 1979, a demonstration of the Digital European Backbone (DEB) reconstitution system was conducted at the headquarters of the Defense Communications Agency (today known as the Defense Information Systems Agency or DISA) in Washington, D.C. Hegenberger accomplished the feat using a system he’d started developing about a year earlier, which became known as the “Hegenberger system” and was used by both civil and military pilots for some time afterward.Įssentially, his system relied on nondirectional, low-frequency radio and marker beacons on the ground, which could be picked up with a radio compass and receiver, among other instruments, aboard his NY-2 biplane. Hegenberger accomplished the first blind solo instrument landing in history at Wright Field, OH. By Air Force Life Cycle Management Center History Officeįrom May 8-10, Capt Albert F. ![]()
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