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Which statement BEST defines Air
and Space Power?
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The synergistic
application of air, space, and information systems to project global strategic
military power.
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Which of the following are Air Force core
competencies?
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Developing Airmen, Technology-to-Warfighting,
Integrating Operations
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A statement of how we think airpower should be
employed or a belief in the best way to use airpower is best defined as
________?
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Doctrine
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The terms Unity of Command, Objective, Mass,
Maneuver, Economy of Force, Security, Surprise and Simplicity are known as
________?
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Principles of War
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The
fundamental truths unique to the air and space environment and to the
application of Air and space power are known as ________ (Airpower thru WWI, SOB 5)?
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Tenets of Airpower
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Many ballooning firsts happened in this decade,
beginning with the Montgolfier Brothers sending 3 animals (a duck, a sheep and
a rooster) up in a balloon on a test flight.
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1780s
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He started in the bicycle business like the
Wright Brothers. In 1907, Alexander
Graham Bell invited him to join his Aerial Experiment Association where he
designed aircraft controlled by ailerons (rather than the wing warping used by
the Wrights). By 1914 he was the leading
aircraft manufacturer in the US
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Glenn Curtiss
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His interest in airpships was inspired by a
visit to the US
during the Civil War where he witnessed the use of tethered balloons at
military observation posts. His first
rigid airship made its maiden voyage on July 2, 1900 and his name was soon
synonymous with rigid dirigibles
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Ferdinand von Zeppelin
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He was the Secretary of the Smithsonian
Institution and his experimentation with flight was funded by the US War
Department. A mere 9 days after his last
failed attempt with his Great Aerodrome in Dec 1903, the Wright brothers had
their first successful sustained, controlled flight. His failures made the U.S. Army skeptical of
the Wright brothers invention
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. Samuel Langley
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He was scientific and practical in his glider
experiments and had a reputation as “the flying man.” Most of his tests were carried out near Berlin. He died on August 10, 1896, the day after his
glider stalled and crashed after being caught in a sudden gust of wind
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Otto Lilienthal
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Which of the following statements BEST describe
the beliefs of Guilio Douhet
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Air weapons should be able to break an enemy’s
resistance by attacking port, railroads and economic structure
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Strategic bombing is BEST described as________?
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Attacking the heart of the enemy homeland in an
attempt to destroy the enemy’s war making capability.
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Which of the following statements BEST describes
the Allied bombing campaign against Germany in World War I?
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Fairly ineffective
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The Battle of St. Mihiel, Sept 12, 1918,
represented the first large-scale massing of airpower under central
command. Who was that air commander?
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Col. William “Billy” Mitchell
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Which WWI ace had the most kills with 80?
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Baron Manfred von Richthofen
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