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Lecture Series - National Museum of the USAF
Hosted by National Museum of the U.S. Air Force · EN
The Lecture Series features an exciting array of speakers who impart a diversity of perspectives on USAF heritage. Lecturers include active duty or retired military members, specialists in research, development and technology, and historians and authors.
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Episodes
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Vision and Genius in the R&D Gallery
Nov 24, 201400:42:11Tap to summarizeDr. Squire L. Brown discusses the museum˜s Research & Development Gallery, which exhibits a unique collection of aircraft that challenged the imagination and pushed the boundaries of flight.
Transcribe →Hexagon KH-9
Oct 9, 201400:50:16Tap to summarizePhil Pressel discusses the last orbiting reconnaissance camera that used film for photography and how it played an important part in U.S. intelligence and aerospace history.
Transcribe →Titan II - Few but Powerful
Sep 22, 201401:03:58Tap to summarizeDr. David K. Stumpf gives an overview of the Titan II program, culminating in a discussion of just how close a Soviet weapon would have had to come to incapacitate the silo.
Transcribe →Afghan Air Power
Mar 31, 201401:04:29Tap to summarizeCol. Robert A. Strasser and Lt. Col. Tay W. Johannes discuss experiences in building the Afghan Air Force, including resources, organizational interactions, mission objectives and how historical events have influenced decision making.
Transcribe →Taps on the Wall
Sep 16, 201300:41:52Tap to summarizeMaj. Gen. (Ret.) John Borling shares his experiences as a prisoner of war, along with the poetry and prose he composed and memorized.
Transcribe →Secret MiG Squadron
Aug 27, 201301:10:24Tap to summarizeCol. (Ret.) Gaillard R. Peck Jr. addresses the 10-year period that the U.S. Air Force secretly trained Air Force, Navy and Marine fighter aircrews in an advanced joint training program against actual Soviet MiG jet fighters.
Transcribe →USAF Special Operations Forces
Feb 7, 201300:43:50Tap to summarizeAir Force Special Operations Command historian Herbert A. Mason Jr. discusses the "Contributions USAF Special Operations Forces Have Made to the Development of Air and Space Power, 1942 to 2012."
Transcribe →20 Years as an Air Force Photojournalist
Dec 3, 201200:51:44Tap to summarizeSix-time ˜Military Photographer of the Year˜ Master Sgt. Jeremy T. Lock discusses how he became a photojournalist in the Air Force and where it has taken him, what military photojournalists do, his latest projects and where photojournalism is going in the future.
Transcribe →America's Canine Heroes
Oct 4, 201200:37:23Tap to summarizeDogster.com editor/writer Maria Goodavage discusses the four-legged heroes who serve our country, what they bring to the fight, how they do it and the deep bonds they form with those who work with them.
Transcribe →My True Course
Jul 26, 201200:58:32Tap to summarizeDutch Van Kirk, the navigator from the B-29 Enola Gay, the aircraft that dropped the world's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, gives a first-hand perspective of one of World War II's most famous missions.
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