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
Santa claus is coming to town. Santa claus is coming to town. You better watch out. You better not cry. You better not pout, im telling you why. Santa claus u is coming to to. Lauren welcome to fbn a. M. Good morning. Im lauren simonetti. Deirdre im deirdre bolton. Lauren five days until christmas. Deirdre thats right. Today is friday. Lauren a lot of investors might be hitting vacation early but still lets take a look at your money. Weve certainly seen a strong meltup after a trio of record closes idea, fractional declines for all three major average as. The nasdaq is down 4 points. It could be on the verge of a sevenday winning streak. Investors on mitt particular, phase one of a china deal will be signed next month. Deirdre japans auto sector falling after the house passing the new north american trade deal, usmca, so that kind of weighed on the nikkei. Lauren lets take a look at european stocks this friday. You have up arrows across the board, nice gain in london, the ftse gaining
On friday. So more rain at times everywhere today. Also lots of dry weather, its mild, and its rather windy as well. So ill start to the morning, the initial rain is pushing its way northwards. Lots of cloud, but lots of dry weather as well, particularly through the mid to late morning into the first part of the afternoon, before further pulses of rain just afternoon, before further pulses of rainjust put in afternoon, before further pulses of rain just put in from the south. But turning dry again towards the end of the day, probably, top temperatures of 12 or 13 celsius. So feeling mild but also some strong gusts of wind around at times as well. For the first half of the night its looking dry, then its going to be wet again through the early hours and into the start of the day tomorrow. But a mild night to come stop temperatures dropping to between seven and nine celsius. Its a wet start to the day tomorrow, but it should brighten up into the afternoon. Some further showers on saturda
E. T. Starts right now. Yes, this joint is jumping with witney and lindsay straight from the ballroom to the london west hollywood. So great to have you here. Thank you. Were excited to be here. Christmas is almost here. Will you spend it with your families . Yes. Were both heading back to utah to be with our families. I love that. Well, prince harry and meghan are m. I. A. So its not so merry for the royal family. Ho ho ho. This is new video of harry dressed up as santa sending a message of Holiday Cheer to the families of fallen soldiers. Have a fantastic christmas and a happy new year. While hes jolly, the rest of the royals . Not so much. A royal source tells us some members of the family are, quote, disappointed that he and meghan are not spending archies first christmas with them and the 93yearold queen. Elizabeth left this morning for her country home while harrys grandfather, 98yearold prince phillip, went to the hospital to be treated for a preexisting condition. While harry a