Reliving the foundation of US Air Force R&D/Acquisition at McCook Field in/after World War I. Tweeting events on the dates they occurred 100 years ago, 1917+
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The U.S. Army withdraws its last occupational forces from Germany, departing from Coblenz and ending the stationing of troops there after more than four years. At noon, the American flag is lowered and the remaining American troops board trains at the Coblenz station.
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Wilbur Wright firsts steps ashore in Kitty Hawk on September 13, 1900.
It's the farthest he's ever travelled.
An epic adventure begins! – at Kitty Hawk, NC
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Today, we’re excited to unveil our redesigned website – over a year and a half in the making! This relaunch is the cornerstone of one of our Three Big Ideas: to make us more accessible to audiences across the globe through effective use of digital learning technologies.
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Join @WatkinsMuseum and Dr. Ellen Hampton for this upcoming event on how #WW1 changed medicine.
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What makes a military aviator a fighter #ace? This is being debated today as unconfirmed news of a Ukrainian fighter pilot (dubbed the #GhostOfKyiv by social media users) is being credited with shooting down 5+ enemy aircraft in aerial combat. "Flying Ace" is a #WW1 term.
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1961:Operation LOOKING GLASS. After 6 months of tests, SAC initiates continuous airborne command post operations. The EC-135 planes give the U.S. the ability to launch manned bombers and ICBMs in the event of a nuclear attack.
#afhistory #airforce #spaceforce #airmen #guardians
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2002:Op ENDURING FREEDOM. A UAV destroys an enemy target for the first time in this operation when a MQ-1B Predator fires a Hellfire missile to kill a group of senior al Qaeda members in southeastern Afghanistan.
#afhistory #airforce #spaceforce #airmen #guardians
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It’s our 104th birthday today! Our @AFResearchLab roots go back to @McCookField, opening on December 4, 1917. A home for the Airplane #Engineering Division of the @USArmy Signal Corps. #OTD
ALT Historical photo of McCook Field building the side of which reads “This field is small - use it all.”
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It's opening week of new exhibition Snapshots! We're still here prepping things for our in-house staff preview tomorrow. We look forward to welcoming Museum Members for a peek on Thursday and the general public starting Oct. 29. Get your tickets: ow.ly/XyL830rYezX.
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In this thoughtful podcast (now fully transcribed) Dr Amanda Nagel @dranagel explains an important part of #USHistory. Given how African Americans were so ill-treated at home, why did so many enlist during #WW1 and what was their experience? bit.ly/2zF5X18
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1. 150 years ago on this day, Orville Wright was born. In 1939, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaimed Aug. 19 as National Aviation Day.
We look back at the Wright Bros.' dream - the ability for mankind to take flight - and the advancements we've made along the way.
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One of the most popular displays at our museum directs the visitor to *touch* a parachute made of silk. In the US, nylon replaced silk as principal canopy fabric material soon after the onset of the conflict with Japan in WW2. #parachute @McCookField #aviationhistory
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On this day in 1913, Georgia "Tiny" Broadwick became the first woman to parachute from an airplane. She performed as a daring parachutist for many years and even demonstrated parachuting for the U.S. Army: s.si.edu/3gMwoDI #BecauseOfHerStory
ALT Woman wearing a parachute backpack.
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This is the first significant article published about GE in Aviation Week.
GE's Turbo Supercharger had just powered the record setting altitude flight at McCook Field.
Aeronautical engineering advances would soon lead Orville Wright to say. "Aviation has gone beyond my dreams"
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1/3. Forgotten early gliding parachute concepts: McCook Field’s own Major Hoffman (1930) and ATI Parachute Museum’s Dave Gold (1961). The glide originated from an asymmetrical canopy shape and/or venting. Both designs were flown. @McCookField
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The flat circular design perfected at @McCookField and @WrightPattAFB in the 1920/50s (right) go back to “Prof” Tom Baldwin’s 1887’s invention of the “limp” parachute which did away with the hardware of the day (wooden hoops, stiffeners, etc.) 1/3
