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
Hazard on christmas eve. Millions of americans are on the move with some storms threatening their plans. Torrential rain caused flooding across parts of the southeast yesterday. In South Carolina a dam broke, flooding streets and neighborhoods. Some people say the water rose up to 6 feet. Meanwhile more rain and snow is expected in the west today. Olga ospina from our los angeles station kcbs is tracking your holiday forecast. Good Tuesday Morning to you. Happy christmas eve. This, of course, is going to be a very busy travel day. So if youre going to be traveling across the country, beware of a couple of travel spots on the east and west coast. The rain on the west coast pushing off to the east. Phoenix is getting the brunt of that storm and snow in utah and colorado. As far as the southeast that has been soaked these last few days, things are winding down there, so conditions are improving for your christmas day. Temperatures expected to be on the mild side. Actually for the central
Festival of books. Here in downtown nashville. Today we are at the National Public library and i like to thank them for hosting this if it and monday other sessions. Theyve been a great partner to this if it for several years and we just want to say thank you. Southern festival of books is an annual if it produced each year by humanities tennessee, i would like to take those moment to thank humanities tennessee and all who contribute to the organization for their continued support of the written word and the writers, the young writers, Community History and civil discourse in all things humidity here in tennessee. And humanities in tennessee like to say, our story and our state and i like to think humanities for helping us tell and preserver stories. So a pit of housekeeping before we began, in a moment ill introduce our other and share some stories, and some insight from the book, no surrender. The conclusion of his presentation, we will open the floor up to questions and if you have
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