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...This study examines the development of military night aviation from its origins through the First World War. Emphasis is on the evolution of night flying in those countries which fought on the Western Front, namely France, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States . While ni...

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...This paper addresses Marine Corps aviation’s contribution in the area of air-ground integration during the Second World War. I chose this topic because it is not an area that has been widely researched, and it deals with a mission that I am tasked with as a F...

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...960. Using case study methodology, it emphasizes the operational level of war and analyzes the use of the different French army, air force, and naval aviation operational roles; the adaptation of equipment to conditions in Africa; and the changes in the French- African policy that have influenced the use of airpower....

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...7 cases involving electro-magnetic effects on the aircraft (about 4%) of this catalog is under development with Dr Richard F. Haines for the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP) Dominique Weinstein Paris, February 3, 2001...

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...represents more than 20years of development in US Air Corps attack theory and doctrine. It was the first peacetime period of such development. Attack aviation during this time was a branch of aviation used to provide direct and indirect combat support to ground forces in the form of machine-gun strafing, light bombing, and chemical attacks....

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...ions . . . . 2 Preview of the Argument . . . . . 3 Notes . . . . . 3 2 ATTACK THEORY AND DOCTRINE OF THE AIR SERVICE, 1919–1926 . . . . 5 Attack Aviation’s World War I Legacy . . . . 5 Air Service Attack Theory . . . . 6 Attack Doctrine Established . . . . . 8 Early Training and Maneuvers . . . . . 11 Notes . . . . . 13 3 ATTACK THEORY AND DOCTRINE IN THE AIR CO...

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...1 THE INFANCY OF AIRPOWER. . . . . . . . . .3 2 NAVAL AVIATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3 AIRPOWER IN WORLD WAR I . . . . . . . . . 11 4 LAYING THE INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATIONS, 1919–1931 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 5 AN AGE OF INNOVATION, 1931–1941 ...

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...nt and Legacy of William Mitchell’s Strategic Thought . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Lt Col Mark A. Clodfelter 4 The Influence of Aviation on the Evolution of American Naval Thought . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Dr. David R. Mets 5 Airpower Thought in Continental Europe between the Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Dr. James S. Corum 6 Inte...

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..."From my experience in the aviation field, I find that this unique aviation and space history book provides a very realistic view on the use of technology in the aviation and space business as it was conquered during the past half century."...

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...’S "OUTER ZONE" -1942-1945............10 Early Plans and Capability U.S. Navy Submarine and Surface Laid Mines Air Operations Minelaying by Naval Aviation 4. AAF MINELAYING IN JAPAN/S "INNER ZONE" -1945...............18 Planning "Operation Starvation LeMay and the XXI Bomber Command 5. PLAN AND REALITY -THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AAF AERIAL MINELAYING............26 Pla...

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...US THEORISTS . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 11 THE ROYAL AIR FORCE . . . . . . . . . . . .117 12 THE EUROPEAN THEORISTS . . . . . . . . .125 13 NAVAL AVIATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127 14 WORLD WAR II AND THE POSTWAR ERA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129 15 VIETNAM AND NATO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 16 THE CURRENT DEBATE . . . . . ...

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...This research is framed in the context of a specialized weapon in military aviation: an unmanned multirole fighter capable of replacing manned systems and their respective missions. This paper gives a brief history of unmanned aerial vehicles and their employment as weapons to demonstrate the evolut...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 3 TROOP CARRIER AND THEATER AIRLIFT IN WORLD WAR II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79 Origins of Troop Carrier Aviation . . . . . . . . .79 The Mediterranean and European Campaigns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Troop Carrier Operations in the Pacific . . . .122 Troop Carrier Aviation in the Chin...

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...so provide a coercive force that can threaten to escalate the fighting beyond peace enforcement on short notice.However, in almost all cases tactical aviation and special operations aircraft will be critical to support or protect ground forces and help control violence at the lower end of the spectrum. Peace enforcement operations are likely to succeed only when airpower i...

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...917, he became an aviator and organized the United States Schools of Military Aeronautics at eight universities to provide ground school training for aviation cadets, and then in Issoudun, France, Bingham commanded the primary Air Service flying school. He became a supporter of the Air Service in their post-war quest for independence from the Army and supported that effort...

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...mports by 62 percent. China is an avid consumer of Russian electricity generation, aviation, space, laser, and nuclear technologies. Russian firms ...

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...oved to Long Beach, California. My brother, Erik, works there too, also in aviation.” Lacey wanted to know more, everything, about Jake. She was disma...

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...me to see me upon some copyright matter in 1912. He broached the view that aviation would destroy de- mocracy, because he said only aristocrats make a... ...d that none but the French could hope to beat it. On the Western front the aviation has been screwed up to a very much higher level than on the Ital- ... ...heavy traffic, sometimes the dusty road is clear ahead, now we pass a vast aviation camp, now a park of waiting field guns, now an encampment of caval...

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... before 1910, which is still a dream, but he doubted if effective military aviation or aerial fighting would be possible before 1950, which is a miss ... ...t in 1908, when flying was still almost incredible, M. Ader published his “Aviation Militaire.” Well, that was eight years ago, and men have been figh...

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...New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation?and Nonadaptation? . . . in the Law Enforcement Community 73 3.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation Administration 82 3.4 . . . and in the Intelligence Community 86...

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...ion— ...in the Law Enforcement Community 73 3.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation Administration 82 3.4 . . . and in the Intelligence Community ... ... border control, the flow of assets to terrorist organizations, commercial aviation, the role of congressional oversight and resource allocation, and ... ...e learned that the institutions charged with protecting our borders, civil aviation, and national security did not understand how grave this threat co... ...ified item in his back pocket, clipped to its rim. 15 When the local civil aviation security office of the Federal Aviation Admin- istration (FAA) lat... ...r 11, 2001, they had defeated all the security layers that America’s civil aviation security system then had in place to prevent a hijacking. The Hija... ...reciation of the FAA’s responsibility for the safety and security of civil aviation. The airlines bore responsibility, too.They were facing an escalat... ...the FAA was man- dated by law to regulate the safety and security of civil aviation. From an air traffic controller’s perspective, that meant maintain... ...s had a hijack coordinator,who was the director of the FAA Office of Civil Aviation Security or his or her designate. 102 If a hijack was confirmed, p... ...ystem han- dled it with great skill, as about 4,500 commercial and general aviation aircraft soon landed without incident. 165 At 9:46 the Command Cen...

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...d a heap of money, them guys,” said the man who was with him, a private in Aviation. “Let’s go have a drink.” Fuselli was silent and absorbed in his t... ...hey didn’t mind having naked women about, did they?” said the private in Aviation, a morose foul-mouthed little man who had been in the woolen busi... ...on the asphalt. “Let’s go have another drink,” said the private in Aviation. Fuselli looked at his watch; they had hours before train time. A ... ... some other girl. “Must have been immoral, them guys,” said the private in Aviation, leering at the girl in the dirty blouse. Fuselli remembered a rev... ...tables full of dishes being upset. “Cognac, beaucoup,” said the private in Aviation. “Mame shows,” said Fuselli. The cafe was full of gold and green s... ...d, and a dark passage and stairs that smelt musty, where he and the man in Aviation fell down. He remembered how it felt to rub his nose hard on the g... ...guys has a good time. Ah put in an applica- tion back in trainin’ camp for Aviation. Ain’t never heard nothing from it though. If Ah had, Ah wouldn’t ...

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... he ig- nored this little digression, and wanted to know: Why not American aviation?—to which I answered: “Ah, but as my friend has so often said to m...

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...s atlas and consider one or two propositions. And, first, let him think of aviation. I can assure him, because upon this matter I have some special kn...

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...e sudden downfalls are the least pleasant and most dangerous experience in aviation. They exact a tiring vigilance. Over lake or sea, in sunshine, wit... ... project as dream-like to- day as electric lighting, electric traction, or aviation would have been in the year 1850. In 1850 a man reasonably con- ve... ...reater supply of able educated men, versa- tile men capable of engines, of aviation, of invention, of lead- ing and initiative. We need more laborator... ...and a great array of new colleges, a much readier access to instruction in aviation and military and naval practice. And if we are to have national se...

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...g in as I did— TARLETON. Out of the sky. Ha! Dropping in. The new sport of aviation. You just see a nice house; drop in; scoop up the man’s daughter; ...