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AIRMAN magazine – March-April 2011

This month’s Airman – US Air Force magazine :

  • Washington trip gives veterans a chance to pay their respects and receive appreciation.
  • Rodeo association allows military people to get in touch with their inner cowboy or cowgirl.
  • A combat photographer puts herself on the other side of the lens as she fights cancer.
  • Andrews lieutenant spends her free time as a Washington Redskins cheerleader.
  • International school at Lackland AFB brings military people and cultures together.
  • Intense course prepares Airmen for Army Ranger school.
  • Photographers share their views from Joint Forcible Entry Exercise 10-6.

Click on the cover below to read the magazine – www.af.mil courtesy:

USAF Airman magazine March-April 2011 cover

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U.S. Air Force Airman online magazine

Everything you want to know about the USAF is available on the webpage below:

http://www.airmanonline.af.mil

If you want to know almost everything about the USAF, Airman book 2010 is available here

(click on the cover):

Airman the book 2010

This month’s magazine is available here (click on the cover):

Airman magazine September/October 2010

U.S. Air Force Link courtesy: www.af.mil

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Jet fuel R&D

Burning Passion Mark Laber, left, a University of Dayton research partner, examines the expansion of aircraft seals using synthetic fuels. One of the uses of current aviation fuel is to swell seals found throughout the aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Desiree N. Palacios)

Airman Magazine - Jet fuel is strange. It needs to have seemingly contradictory properties to make it useful. It can’t freeze. It can’t have a low flashpoint or easily vaporize. Yet, it must have a tremendous amount of energy for its volume and lubricate and seal fuel lines in aircraft. In the more than 30 years the Air Force has been studying its primary aircraft fuel, known as JP-8, scientists are still learning new things.

READ FULL ARTICLE on www.af.mil

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Article published in the latest Air Salon, the French Air Force Academy magazine (click on the article below to enlarge)

Air Salon magazine article, EOAA Ecole des officiers de l'Armée de l'air (Ecole de l'air) Salon de Provence 2008

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Jim Zwayer and Bill Weaver took off that day – January 25th, 1966 !

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SR71 Blackbird – USAF photo by Tech SGT Michael Haggerty – Source: www.af.mil

1966 – This unbelievable test flight happened 43 years ago but remained top secret for decades given the constraints of the Cold war at that time. You can read this breath-taking story in browsing into Google. Type – SR-71 Blackbird breakup at Mach 3.18 – (or click on this link, then on the first webpage of the Google list proposed). Plant yourself firmly in an armchair, then you can start to read the most amazing aeronautical report I have ever read!

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