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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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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
| | Friday, January 27, 1939 -- AAC 1st Lt. Benjamin Kelsey makes the first flight of the Lockheed XP-38 at March Field, Calif.
| | | Wednesday, January 27, 1943 -- The first American air raid on Germany is made by Eighth Air Force B-17 crews against Wilhelmshaven and other targets in the northwestern part of the country.
| | | Friday, January 27, 1967 -- A routine prelaunch test for NASA's Apollo 1 turned fatal when a fire ripped through the spacecraft's crew cabin, claiming the lives of Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee.
| | | Wednesday, January 29, 1930 -- Beginning Jan. 8, Maj. Ralph Royce leads mass flight of AAC pilots flying Curtiss P-1C Hawks from Selfridge Field, Mich., to Spokane, Wash., and back in severe winter weather to gain experience for Arctic flying & is awarded the Mackay Trophy.
| | | Friday, January 30, 1948 -- Orville Wright dies in his hometown of Dayton, Ohio, at age 76.
| | | Tuesday, January 31, 1950 -- President Truman announces that he has directed the Atomic Energy Commission “to continue its work on all forms of atomic-energy weapons, including the so-called hydrogen or super bomb.” This is the first confirmation of US H-bomb work.
| | | Friday, January 31, 1958 -- Explorer I, the first US satellite, is launched by the Army at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Launched on a Jupiter-C rocket, it will play a key role in discovering the Van Allen radiation belt.
| | | Tuesday, January 31, 1961 -- A chimpanzee named Ham is launched atop a Redstone booster from Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex, Fla., in a test of the Mercury manned capsule.
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