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Air Force Magazine
Daily Report
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This Month in Air Force Magazine
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The President's Corner
Notes from AFA's President
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Book recommendations, CP Newsletter
January 28, 2012 -- AFA members, Congressional staff members, civic leaders, DOCA members, I have two new books to recommend to you...More
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Loh, Fogleman, op-eds
January 25, 2012 -- AFA members, Congressional staff members, civic leaders, DOCA members, I have several op-eds to bring to your attention...More
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Defense "Strategy"
January 6, 2012 -- AFA members, Congressional staff members, civic leaders, DOCA members, yesterday the President, Secretary of Defense, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (then later the Deputy Secretary of Defense, Under Secretary of Defense Policy, and Vice Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff) rolled out the new defense strategy. You can find it at...More
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Previous Notes from the President
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This Week In Airpower History
| | Wednesday, February 01, 1961 -- The first Boeing LGM-30A Minuteman ICBM is launched from Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex, Fla. It travels 4,600 miles and hits the target area.
| | | Saturday, February 03, 1945 -- 959 B-17 crews carry out the largest raid to date against Berlin by American bombers.
| | | Monday, February 03, 1964 -- Four airmen locked in a spaceship simulator exhibit no ill effects after exposure to a pure oxygen atmosphere for 30 days.
| | | Monday, February 04, 1946 -- The Air Force Association is incorporated.
| | | Sunday, February 05, 1905 -- T.S. Baldwin takes part in a 10-mile race between his dirigible and an automobile. The dirigible and its pilot win by a three-minute margin.
| | | Tuesday, February 05, 1918 -- While flying as a substitute gunner with a French squadron, Lt. Stephen W. Thompson becomes the first American to record an aerial victory while in a US uniform. He shoots down a German Albatros D.III.
| | | Monday, February 07, 1994 -- Air Force Space Command launches the first Milstar communications satellite.
| | | Sunday, February 09, 1969 -- Boeing conducts the first flight of the 747. The jumbo jet, with standard seating for 347 passengers, introduces high passenger volume to the world’s airways.
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