Lecture Series - National Museum of the USAF

National Museum of the U.S. Air Force

National Museum of the U.S. Air Force Lecture Series

  • 42 minutes 11 seconds
    Vision and Genius in the R&D Gallery
    Dr. Squire L. Brown discusses the museums Research & Development Gallery, which exhibits a unique collection of aircraft that challenged the imagination and pushed the boundaries of flight.
    24 November 2014, 7:14 pm
  • 50 minutes 16 seconds
    Hexagon KH-9
    Phil Pressel discusses the last orbiting reconnaissance camera that used film for photography and how it played an important part in U.S. intelligence and aerospace history.
    9 October 2014, 2:19 pm
  • 1 hour 3 minutes
    Titan II - Few but Powerful
    Dr. David K. Stumpf gives an overview of the Titan II program, culminating in a discussion of just how close a Soviet weapon would have had to come to incapacitate the silo.
    22 September 2014, 4:14 pm
  • 1 hour 4 minutes
    Afghan Air Power
    Col. Robert A. Strasser and Lt. Col. Tay W. Johannes discuss experiences in building the Afghan Air Force, including resources, organizational interactions, mission objectives and how historical events have influenced decision making.
    31 March 2014, 4:02 pm
  • 41 minutes 52 seconds
    Taps on the Wall
    Maj. Gen. (Ret.) John Borling shares his experiences as a prisoner of war, along with the poetry and prose he composed and memorized.
    16 September 2013, 3:03 pm
  • 1 hour 10 minutes
    Secret MiG Squadron
    Col. (Ret.) Gaillard R. Peck Jr. addresses the 10-year period that the U.S. Air Force secretly trained Air Force, Navy and Marine fighter aircrews in an advanced joint training program against actual Soviet MiG jet fighters.
    27 August 2013, 8:16 pm
  • 43 minutes 50 seconds
    USAF Special Operations Forces
    Air Force Special Operations Command historian Herbert A. Mason Jr. discusses the "Contributions USAF Special Operations Forces Have Made to the Development of Air and Space Power, 1942 to 2012."
    7 February 2013, 5:12 pm
  • 51 minutes 44 seconds
    20 Years as an Air Force Photojournalist
    Six-time Military Photographer of the Year Master Sgt. Jeremy T. Lock discusses how he became a photojournalist in the Air Force and where it has taken him, what military photojournalists do, his latest projects and where photojournalism is going in the future.
    3 December 2012, 7:21 pm
  • 37 minutes 23 seconds
    America's Canine Heroes
    Dogster.com editor/writer Maria Goodavage discusses the four-legged heroes who serve our country, what they bring to the fight, how they do it and the deep bonds they form with those who work with them.
    4 October 2012, 4:47 pm
  • 58 minutes 32 seconds
    My True Course
    Dutch Van Kirk, the navigator from the B-29 Enola Gay, the aircraft that dropped the world's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, gives a first-hand perspective of one of World War II's most famous missions.
    26 July 2012, 1:06 pm
  • 1 hour 12 minutes
    The Air Force in Space ˜ and on the Moon
    Former NASA astronaut and retired Air Force colonel David R. Scott talks about his three space missions: Gemini VIII, Apollo 9 and Apollo 15.
    26 July 2012, 1:05 pm
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