Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Roma at Langley Field in 1921. Beginning in 1908 and ending in 1937, the U.S. Army established a program to operate airships.With the exceptions of the Italian-built Roma and the Goodyear RS-1, which were both semi-rigid, all Army airships were non-rigid blimps.
After seeing Baldwin demonstrate a dirigible at the St. Louis air meet in 1907, Allen had urged the U.S. Army to buy a dirigible, as many European armies had dirigibles by the turn of the century. [1] On 5 August 1908, the Army tested SC-1 at Fort Myer, Virginia. The craft fell short of a two-hour, 20 mph objective to meet a $8,000 per unit award.
Thunder Birds (subtitled "Soldiers of the Air" and also known as Thunderbirds) is a 1942 Technicolor film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Gene Tierney, Preston Foster, and John Sutton. It features aerial photography and location filming at an actual Arizona training base of the United States Army Air Forces named Thunderbird Field ...
B. Bataan (film) Battle: Los Angeles; Battleground (film) Best Defense; Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (film) Biloxi Blues (film) Blinky (film) Born on the Fourth of July (film)
The 3 SST's were transferred to the Army in 1919-1920. The Army operated the SST's until late 1923 or early 1924. [8] Experiments involving SSTs were carried out at the end of the war; one notable example being SSE.3 (SS Experimental) that had an envelope design known as shape "U.271", the shape from which the hulls of both R100 and R101 were ...
Winning Your Wings is a 1942 Allied propaganda film of World War II produced by Warner Bros. Studios for the US Army Air Forces, starring James Stewart. It was aimed at young men who were thinking about joining the Air Force. Members of the production crew would later form the core of the First Motion Picture Unit.
During World War II, the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion — nicknamed the Six Triple Eight — was the first and only unit of color in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) stationed in Europe.
Men of the Sky is a 1942 American Technicolor short propaganda film, directed by B. Reeves Eason. [1] The documentary film reenacted the training of a group of United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) pilots. [2] Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hollywood rushed to turn out films that would help to help win the war.