Airmen behind the romanticized facades and described how legendary pilots like Eddie Rickenbacker influenced movies, comics and popular culture. Held by the National World war i museum and memorial in kansas city, this is close to an hour. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my true pleasure to introduce the last speaker for this afternoon. That is dr. Michael hankins. He is the assistant professor of strategy at the United States air forces eschool of graduate professional military education where he directs courses on air power history and national strategy. He recently published an article, the teaball solution the evolution of air combat technology in vietnam, 1968 to 1972 in the air power history journal and is currently writing a book that explores the relationship between pilot culture and the Technological Development of military aircraft. He earned his ph. D. From Kansas State University with his dissertation, the cult of the lightweight fighter, culture and technology in t
Book that explores the relationship between pilot culture and the Technological Development of military aircraft. He earned his ph. D. And dissertation of culture and technology in the u. S. Air force 1964 to 1991. Ladiies and gentlemen, please help me in welcoming dr. Michael hankins. All right. I will try to not keep you from the reception and ill be quick. I did want to start off by talking about something that happened about a year ago last june in 2017. There was an air force f15 flying over syria. This is not what you expected to hear in a world war i lecture, but stay with me. An f15 is flying over syria and shoots down an iranian drone, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle or uav. About two weeks, not quite two weeks later a second almost identical event happened, another f15 shot down another iranian drone, and i dont know about you, but my twitter exploded. People started talking online, blogs are being written, people are arguing. And what theyre arguing about is does shooting down th
Iran president said armed forces admitting their mistake is a good first step and that all involved in the accident will be punished renault denies reports of a possible split with nissan and france finance minister calls the rumors malicious welcome to the show. One of the main stories moving markets overnight, chinas yuan strengthened to the highest level after the Treasury Department removed the label of the country as a currency manipulator. Steven mnuchin said the country made moves they first attached the label when they accused them of using the yuan to get an unfair trade voontage the first rise in export since july signaling a recovery in demand following a preliminary trade agreement. Imports rose while the countrys trade surplus increased. An on annual basis Interest Rates rose 0. 5 . Chinese vice premier liu he a arrived in washington. Reporter two days ahead of the signing of the phase one trade deal in washington, d. C. The news has to did with china trade numbers for dec
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Knife. I dont know what it was. And thats when i started to run out through a side door, together with all the people in the dining room. I came back in, grabbed the coffee table that was on the floor, hit him in his faith, and thats when he came back outside after me. He told me, hey, yao, ill get you. Were covering both of these horrific attacks. Cnns Brynn Gingras is in muncie, new york, and lucy kafanov is outside the church just west of ft. Worth, texas. Lucy, walk us through exactly what happened during the shooting. Ryan, it happened so quickly, less than 24 hours ago, the gunman dressed in dark clothing walked into the church, he sat down in a back pew, he then gets up and appears to have an interaction with one of the Church Members before pulling out a long gun and opening fire. Two armed volunteers respond swiftly, taking him down. The whole thing captured on camera, because those services were live streamed. And i should warn our viewers, the footage is incredibly disturbin