US honors first women Air Force pilots

2010-06-26T03:06:46Z

More than 60 years after the end of World War II, American lawmakers paid tribute Wednesday to the pioneering but long-overlooked role played by women pilots in the US Air Force.

About 1,000 women piloted fighter planes in the United States from 1942 to 1944 when they joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots, dubbed the WASPs.

Their mission was not to go into ...

Senate panel seeks end to F-22 export ban

2010-06-25T20:44:45Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate panel urged the Air Force on Thursday to start developing an export model of its F-22 Raptor, the most advanced U.S. fighter jet, even as it voted to end U.S. purchases.

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The Fight of My Life

2010-10-26T21:06:51Z

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Roger Wicker biography

2010-06-26T02:25:37Z

Biographical information on Roger Wicker

NAME — Roger F. Wicker

AGE-BIRTH PLACE — 56; Pontotoc, Miss.

EXPERIENCE — Air Force 1976-1980; Air Force Reserve 1980-2003; staff lawyer for Rep. Trent Lott, R-Miss., on

Boeing Boomerangs On McCain

2010-10-19T10:20:25Z

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Russia Hijack Exercise

2011-01-04T08:32:47Z

FILE - In this Aug. 8, 2010 file photo, Canadian Forces Col. Todd Balfe, right, deputy commander of the Alaskan NORAD region, talks with Russian Air Force Col. Alexander Vasiliev, center, as U.S. Air Force interpreter Tech. U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet hooks up on a boom as it receives a mid-air refueling from U.S. Air Force KC-135R air refueling tanker during "Keen Sword" U.S.-Japan joint military exercise over the South China Sea,Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010.(AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

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Mystery Spacecraft

2010-12-03T12:04:37Z

This April 2010 photo released by the U.S. Air Force shows the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle in the encapsulation cell at the Astrotech facility in Titusville, Fla. The U.S. Air Force's secrecy-shrouded X-37B unmanned spaceplane returned to Earth early Friday after more than seven months in orbit on a classified mission, officials said. (AP Ph...

Gays in Military Flight Nurse

2010-11-30T15:03:53Z

Major Margaret Witt, a U.S. Air Force flight nurse dismissed under the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, speaks during a news conference on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010 at the office of the ACLU of

Alaska F-22 Crash

2010-11-19T21:00:34Z

This Nov. 17, 2010 photo provided by the U.S. Air Force shows an aerial view of the F-22 crash site located approximately 100 miles north of Anchorage, Alaska. An Air Force official says evidence found at the remote, rugged Alaska site where an F-22 Raptor crashed indicates the pilot died, F...

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