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United States Air Force

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The first considerations over the meaning of a future american air armed force go back on Benjamin Franklin, which was during its stay in France in the year 1793 a witness of the flight tests of the French balloon pioneer Jean of the Rozier in Paris. These events arranged Franklin to interesting views over the military possibilities of balloons. However many years passed, before the first air service the american army was set up: It concerned the so-called "Ballon Corps" the army of the Tptomac, which was officially introduced on 19 June 1861 and to the framework of union armed forces in the American civil war served.

Only on 1 August 1907 however, with mechanism of the Aeronautical division of the American army a genuine military air department, which should operate balloons, flight machines and similar objects, received the signal Corps, thus in the context of the communications service, to a flier department. To the memory: Since the first powered flight of the wright-brothers already three years had passed. The first commander of the Aeronautic division was James everything. In the year 1909 US Army took its first airplane in operation, called "Aeroplane Numbers 1"; unfortunately the machine went verlohren three months later in an accident.

Aviation made progress in the USA although slower, than in Europe. In the year 1916 un the Avation section OF flew the signal Corps flier department mentioned of the US army their first combat missions. First the 1 concerned only air reconnaissance un observation missions, those. Aero Spadron, equipped with machines of the types Curtess Jn-2 and Jn-3, executed, in order to help general Pershing with the capture of the legendary bandit Pancho mansion. Despite the unsatisfactory results of the campaign, with that the 1. Aero Suadron six of their eight machines for different reasons, in the field, lost, flew the relay of 540 applications and could 346 flying hours show.

Ausstattung US Air Force

This table contains all airplanes of the U. S. Air Force in the individual mechanisms. It is thus not completely current on the status of 1997, but did in the last years with the USAF not all too much, and if there are innovations, which are here not yet listed, then lets it me please know.

Type	Operationally	Air National Guard	Air Force Reserve Command	Altogether
A/OA-10	223	101	51	375
B-1	81	14	-	95
B-2	19	-	-	19
B-52	85	-	9	94
C-5	81	13	32	126
C-9	23	-	-	23
C-12	37	-	-	37
C-17	27	-	-	27
C-20	13	-	-	13
C-21	76	4	-	80
C-22	-	3	-	3
C-23	3	-	-	3
C-27	10	-	-	10
C-130	311	242	141	694
C/KC-135	303	224	72	599
C-137	6	-	-	6
C-141	156	18	46	220
E-3	32	-	-	32
E-4	4	-	-	4
E-9	2	-	-	2
EC-18	6	-	-	6
EF-111	37	-	-	37
F-4	12	-	-	12
F-15	621	116	-	737
F-16	809	631	73	1513
F-117	57	-	-	57
G-3	3	-	-	3
G-4	14	-	-	14
G-7	9	-	-	9
G-9	4	-	-	4
G-10	1	-	-	1
G-11	2	-	-	2
H-1	70	-	-	70
H-53	46	-	-	46
H-60	58	18	23	99
KC-10	59	-	-	59
SR-71	3	-	-	3
T-1	156	-	-	156
T-3	112	-	-	112
T-37	420	-	-	420
T-38	451	-	-	451
T-39	3	-	-	3
T-41	3	-	-	3
U-2	35	-	-	35
UV-18	2	-	-	2
VC-25	2	-	-	2
Altogether	4.499	1.426	447	6.372

Stand: 1997

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