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Air Force 75th Anniversary
Air Force Technology Timeline
1947
October 1947
U.S. Air Force Captain
Chuck Yeager becomes the
first person to fly faster than
the speed of sound, test-flying
the experimental
X-1 rocket plane.
October 1954
The Bell X-1B
rocket-powered
experimental
airplane makes its
first powered flight. A
few months later, the
U.S. Air Force transferred
the X-1B to the NACA
(National Advisory Committee
for Aeronautics) - predecessor to
NASA - which conducted the
heating and control tests.
1954
1963
October 16, 1963
At Cape Canaveral, FL, the Air Force inaugurates a space-based nucleardetection
system by launching twin satellites to assume circular 7,000-milehigh
orbits on opposite sides of Earth. The satellites could detect nuclear
explosions anywhere on Earth.
1966
September 20, 1966
Lt. Col. Donald M. Sorlie becomes the first Air
Force pilot to fly the NASA lifting body from the Air
Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base. Airlaunched
from a B-52 at an altitude of 45,000 feet, the
craft reached a speed of nearly 400 miles per hour during the
3.5-minute flight. It tested the concept that a space capsule
could fly back from outer space rather than falling by parachute
into the sea for ship recovery
March 15, 1967
The Sikorsky HH-53B, the largest and
fastest Air Force helicopter, makes
its first flight.
1967
February 9, 1969
The free world's first tactical communications satellite, the
1,600-pound TACSAT 1, blasts into geostationary orbit from
the Air Force Eastern Test Range, FL. TACSAT was designed to
relay communications among small land-mobile, airborne, or
shipborne tactical stations.
October 16, 1967
The first operational F-111A supersonic
tactical fighter lands at Nellis Air Force
Base, NV. The variable swept-wing
jet used its terrain-following
radar-guidance controls for the
flight from Fort Worth, TX.
1969
July 29, 1971
The Air Force completes flight tests of the
experimental X-24A lifting body. Data from
these tests contributed to the development of
NASA's space shuttle.
1971
January 9, 1975
The first operational F-15 Eagle, a new air-superiority fighter aircraft,
arrives at Langley Air Force Base, VA. The F-15 is the first fighter to have a
thrust greater than its weight, allowing it to accelerate while going straight up.
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