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Airpower can be considered a function of air supremacy and numbers. Roughly speaking, a combatant side that has 100% or near 100% control of the skies has air supremacy; an advantage of some 70–90% would indicate air superiority. A 50/50 split is air parity; lower than this, one side may be said to be air denied or air incapable.
Air Power is a historical educational television series broadcast on CBS from November 11, 1956, until May 5, 1957. In 1958 it was repeated, replacing The Twentieth Century during the summer. [ 1 ] It dealt with the rise of aviation as a military weapon .
The only defense was a good offense. The air force that could achieve command of the air by bombing the enemy air arm into extinction would doom its enemy to perpetual bombardment. Command of the air meant victory. Douhet believed in the morale effects of bombing. Air power could break a people's will by destroying a country's "vital centers".
The main power of defense and the power of initiative against an enemy has passed to the air. – November 1918 [ 43 ] In 1922, while in Europe for General Patrick, Mitchell met the Italian air power theorist Giulio Douhet and soon afterwards an excerpted translation of Douhet's The Command of the Air began to circulate in the Air Service.
AirPower was announced on September 12, 2017, at a media event held at Apple's Steve Jobs Theater, in conjunction with the announcement of the iPhone 8, iPhone X, and Wireless Charging Case for AirPods.
Air power history is the branch of military history that analyses and chronicles the activities of air forces as well as the other organisations, including the air branches of armies and navies, that undertake military aviation.
AirPower or Air Power may also refer to: AirPower (charging mat) , a cancelled wireless charging mat developed by Apple Inc. Air Power (TV series) , a 1950s historical educational TV series
Victory Through Air Power is an American adult animated documentary propaganda film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists on July 17, 1943. It was based on the 1942 book Victory Through Air Power by Alexander P. de Seversky, who also appeared in the film. [1]