DC, the air wing of an aircraft carrier could attack 200 targets in one day in 1991.
Shauna Sperry, a psychologist who has just begun working with the air wing.
The modern air wing can provide credible combat capacity with 80-125 air dominance, strike, electronic warfare, and surveillance combat missions each day.
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Wartime service: During Operation Desert Storm, Keating was deputy commander, Carrier Air Wing 17, participating in combat operations in from the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga.
On the day I was aboard, rookie pilots (the Abraham Lincoln's regular air wing was on land) took turns trying to qualify for landing on a carrier.
In addition, they have constituted an air wing that is practicing landings on a carrier-shaped strip, and are reported to be building a new carrier in secret.
In 2001, Phillips was the first network correspondent to gain exclusive access to CAG 9, the elite Navy air wing, in preparation for the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
This can be accomplished by utilizing operational alternatives, including modified U.S. Air Force Air Expeditionary Forces, along with U.S. Marine Corps Air Wing, to provide the required close air support mission in Afghanistan.
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They will fall under the U.S. diplomatic mission, rather than report to a military commander, and they will depend on a contract air wing run by the State Department to move around the country.
Their striking power lies in their air wing (in the case of aircraft carriers, although in the MISTRALs it will lie in helicopters and infantry vehicles as well as the troop component) and they almost never go anywhere unescorted.
One of the largest of them, the USS Abraham Lincoln (which I visited in April), weighs almost 100, 000 tons, has a full-time crew of about 5, 000 (including its permanent air wing) and can travel over 30 knots per hour.
Lindbergh had by then been activated as a colonel in the Army Air Corps, and he now began traveling around the country for the U.S. government, lobbying for the development of American aviation and for expanding and modernizing the air wing of the armed forces.
Removal of the US Air Expeditionary Wing from Prince Sultan Air Base, for example, should help improve our relations with the Saudis, and relocating US forces south and out of the densely-populated Seoul area in Korea will help remedy various problems with the Korean public while serving other important military purposes as well.
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Welcome aboard Air Force One as we wing our way to the Granite State this morning.
Air vents, a flippant rear wing, sloping head lamps and a vibrant color palette make this model stand out on the street.
Instead of moving a physical surface, fluidic controls divert the airflow over a wing by blowing compressed air out of narrow slots.
The company has worked with Boeing to develop a system that uses multiple workstations to simulate the flow of air over an aircraft's wing.
Officials said the plane suffered more damage than originally thought in the collision, including the propeller damage, and the loss of wing flaps and the air speed indicator.
Philip John, the technical director of the project, says the version used on Demon has the compressed air entering a single chamber within a wing's trailing edge.
The home of Ahmed Jabari, the head of Hamas's military wing, was destroyed in an air strike at Shujaia, a suburb of densely-populated Gaza City, according to the Israeli military.
The report said the Airprox board had been of the opinion that the object was unlikely to have been a fixed wing aircraft, helicopter or hot air balloon, given that it had not shown up on radar.
The Center believes that the United States must retain a minimum of 22 active and 14 reserve air wings, a reduction of only one wing from the current total of 37 wings when and if the completion and ratification of a Conventional Forces in Europe agreement necessitates its removal from Europe.
Ahmed Said Khalil al-Jabari, head of Hamas' military wing, was killed in the initial air strike.
Seconds later, however, the Rangers striker inexplicably missed a glorious chance when he took a fresh-air swipe at Gary Naysmith's left-wing cross.
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Bance then scored his second goal in as many games -- beating Daniel van Buyten in the air to head Florian Heller's right-wing cross past Rensing from eight yards out.
"You run through a field and the paraglider wing catches the wind, it fills with air, blows you off the ground, you switch on the motor and off you go, you're flying, " he said.
He was buried Monday near his home in the West Bank as dozens of masked members of al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade -- the armed wing of Fatah -- fired rifles in the air in protest.
He is reducing the influence of the army--the most powerful, politicized and potentially dangerous wing of the military--by promoting naval and air force officers to top jobs.
"Hey, that Japan Air may know it but they have fuel spewing out the leftward wing quite a bit, " the pilot of another plane told the control tower, which radioed the JAL crew and halted takeoff.
Further, Test and Evaluation officials discovered a handful of cracks on the right wing and right engine of the U.S. Air Force F-35A version, as well as multiple cracks on the bulkhead flange of the Marine short takeoff F-35B version.
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