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Ronald.Ortensie
31 Jan 2024
Look Back...Winged Missiles: 1950-1975
Published Sept. 2, 2020 By Tony Landis Air Force Materiel Command History Office The latter part of WWII and beyond saw a significant development in weapons technology. Among them, long range missile development. The Germans proved to the world that they could use the V-1 and V-2 rockets to strike targets from a long distance. After the war, the United States put forth a great effort to develop a similar technology...
Ronald.Ortensie
29 Jan 2024
FLASHBACK: McDonnell Douglas F-15A Streak Eagle
Published Dec. 14, 2023 By Dennis R. Jenkins Air Force Materiel Command History Office For two weeks beginning on Jan. 16, 1975, three Air Force pilots and a modified McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Division (McAir) F-15A-6-MC (72-119) made an assault on the world class time-to-climb for aircraft powered by jet engines. The three pilots, Maj. Roger Smith, Maj. W. R. 'Mac' Macfarlane, and Maj. Dave Peterson were...
Ronald.Ortensie
14 Nov 2023
Look Back...First Around-the-World Flight, 6 April - 28 September 1924
by R. Ray Ortensie, Deputy Director First released: 15 April 2020 On 6 April 1924, eight Airmen departed in their Douglas World Cruisers, specially built by the Douglas Company in California and tested at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio, from Lake Washington in Seattle, Washington heading westward for Asia via Alaska for one of the most sensational aviation events of the 1920s. This around-the-world flight was the...
Ronald.Ortensie
3 Nov 2023
The Sarah Clark Research Facility
Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) History Office has a strong history of documenting and protecting the institutional memory of the acquisition, test, development, and sustainment of the United States Air Force. The History Office works diligently in uniting the AFMC History and Museums Program to become indispensable to our leadership in order to empower the most important command by operationalizing our...
Ronald.Ortensie
31 Oct 2023
Study//Historical Study of the 1973 Strategic Airlift to Israel
Attached is a 1976 study, "Flight to Israel: A Historical Documentary of Strategic Airlift to Israel, 14 October - 14 November 1973," that Military Airlift Command (MAC) wrote with the intent to present in one comprehensive document to account for all the significant actions and events relating to the Military Airlift Command's strategic airlift to Israel. It begins with the indecisive days just prior to...
Ronald.Ortensie
20 Oct 2023
Flashback//Puff the Magic Dragon: Development of the AC-47 Gunship
The Vietnam War presented those tasked with fighting it numerous challenges. The United States was fighting a “limited war,” restricting itself to military actions without formally declaring war in the country. It was unwilling to use nuclear weapons, which had been the benchmark of military innovation after World War II as a part of the Cold War against the USSR. Modern weaponry was built to fight in this...
Ronald.Ortensie
19 Oct 2023
NEW BOOK! - General Dynamics F-16XL Dual Role Fighter: An Illustrated History
Our newest book by Tony Landis takes a look at the General Dynamics F-16XL Dual Role Fighter through 248pages of over 900 color & 35 black & white photographs, and 125 illustrations.
Ronald.Ortensie
19 Oct 2023
A Look Back: Peacemaker Parasites - Goblins and other strange proposals
by Tony Landis, Writer/Editor 31 July 2023 On April 11, 1941, the Army Air Corps issued a specification calling for industry to produce a bomber capable of carrying 10,000 pounds of bombs to targets 5,000 miles away and return without refueling. The Army Air Corps initially sent invitations to submit preliminary designs to Consolidated Aircraft Corporation and Boeing Aircraft Company with Northrop and Douglas Aircraft...
Ronald.Ortensie
18 Oct 2023
Flashback: Boeing B-52G Nuclear Engine Testbed
by Tony Landis, Writer/Editor 2 May 2023 In 1946, The Department of Defense (DoD) initiated a joint project between the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and the Air Force known as the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Program. Based on requirements established by the DoD, the ANP program, known also as the Manned Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Program, was to develop a nuclear-powered airplane for military purposes. The...
Ronald.Ortensie
18 Oct 2023
AFMC History in Brief
Air Force Materiel Command traces its heritage to 1917 at McCook Field, a World War I-era, experimental engineering facility in Dayton, Ohio. With the creation of the U.S. Air Service in 1918, the organization became known as the Engineering Division and was expanded to include responsibility for the Air Corps' logistics system. It was redesignated the Air Corps Materiel Division in 1926. As the largest branch of...