Author Oriana Pawlyk
Former Air Force Falcon wide receiver Chad Hall is headed to the Super Bowl with the 49ers. Hall, a 2008 Air Force Academy graduate, is part of the NFC Champion San Francisco 49ers. Air Force Athletics announced that Hall was signed to the practice squad during the season by San Francisco and was moved to the active roster for last weekend’s NFC Championship game. Hall, who spent the last two seasons with the Eagles, wears No. 14 for the 49ers. In 2010, Hall was the first service academy grad to make the Eagles’ active team roster for that season. Hall…
We may only be a few days into 2013, but Superman isn’t just a character in a film, an action figure or a life-size poster anymore. Now he’s flying from our fingertips. Just before the New Year, a cyclist in southern California was riding with a friend when he stopped to shoot footage of Superman flying past him. “I was cycling with my buddy down PCH (Pacific Coast Highway) and during our casual conversation … Superman flew by,” Kyle Gough wrote above his now-viral video. “We stopped, got off our bikes just in time to watch him land.” The video…
First came the flying saucers, and now another Air Force experiment has shed some light on a past space endeavor. Except this time, it was to be at the expense of the moon. According to this recent article from Discovery News, Air Force Physicist Leonard Reiffel published a report in 1958 that proposed “nuclear detonations in the vicinity of the moon.” Amy Shira Teitel, the author of the Discovery News article, writes, “Reiffel envisioned soft landing three identical scientific instrument packages carrying seismometers and radiation detectors at random on the visible face of the moon. These in situ stations would…
It’s that time of year when the Air Force prepares for the holiday season — Toys For Tots drives, shopping at the exchange, Operation Christmas Drop — and prepping Santa for Christmas Eve, of course. The Environmental Tectonics Corp., which makes training equipment for the Air Force, has put out its own version of “The Night Before Christmas” this year. The story begins with Santa buying aviation training equipment to prepare for his flight around the world — signing some contracts, training with NorPAC (the North Pole Air Center, for short), etc. Read through ETC’s story, and watch the simulated…
