Test 2Review Post World War I

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Test 2Review Post World War I

• DAVID L. ROGERS
• Major, USAF (Ret)

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Core Values

• Five Core Values
• Integrity
• Doing the right thing
• Excellence in All We Do
• Improvingmaking it more right
• Others as Myself
• Treating others the right way
• Education
• Learning the right things
• Commitment
• Promising to do the right things and following
  through

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Aircraft

• A-10
• Thunderbolt II or Warthog
• Mission close air support
• 30 MM Gatling gun, missiles and bombs
• CV-22
• Osprey
• Mission Insertion, exit and re-supply of special
  operations
• Tilt-rotor technology

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Barnstormers and Explorers

• Barnstormers daredevils who performed stunts
• They did it for money NOT to promote aviation
• Crossing the Atlantic
• US Navy first to do it, but had four stops along
  the way
• Charles Lindbergh did it non-stop solo
• Did so in the Spirit of St. Louis
• Was the example of a good citizen

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African American Women

• Bessie Coleman
• First African American female to attain a pilots
  license
• Good Americancontinued even in discrimination
• Died before starting a flight school for African
  Americans
• Willa B. Brown
• Started the school Bessie Coleman dreamed about
• Trained the Tuskegee Airmen

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Other Contributors

• Richard Byrd
• First to fly over the North Pole
• Amelia Earhart
• First woman to fly non-stop solo over the
  Atlantic
• Died trying to fly around the world
• Caused by her own carelessness

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Commercial Aviation

• US lagged behind Europe in commercial aviation
• Instead of carrying people, they carried the mail
• When the US joined the passenger service, the
  DC-3 was a huge leap
• Succeeded when rigid air ships failed
• Hindenburg disaster sealed fate of rigid air
  ships
• Air races would promote aviation
• Beech, Piper, and Cessna would start
• Women would advanceNinety-Nines

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Scientific Advances

• Aviation Science Became Organized
• Pressurized Cabins
• Retractable Landing Gears
• Mono-winged
• Igor Sikorsky develops first helicopter
• Robert Goddard becomes known as Father of Modern
  Rocketry
• Despite the fact that Germany produces first
  rocket for war-time use

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Great MenGreat Ideas

• A nations best defense is an educated citizenry.
• Thomas Jefferson
• If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, ...
  it expects what never was and never will be.
• Thomas Jefferson
• Human history becomes more and more a race
  between education and catastrophe.
• HG Wells