Museum Lecture Series 64: Manned Orbiting Laboratory Panel
Space pioneers share their experiences during a presentation titled “The Dorian Files Revealed: The Manned Orbiting Laboratory Crew Members’...
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Museum Lecture Series
The Lecture Series features an exciting array of speakers who impart a diversity of perspectives on USAF heritage. Lecturers include active duty or retired military members, specialists in r...
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20 of 65 episodesMuseum Lecture Series 65: Evolution of the F-22 Raptor
Former test pilot Paul Metz discusses the evolution of the F-22 Raptor, tracing the military, geo-political and technical forces that drove...
Museum Lecture Series 56: Contributions USAF Special Operations Forces Have Made to the Development of Air and Space Power, 1942 to 2012
Air Force Special Operations Command historian Herbert A. Mason Jr. discusses the "Contributions USAF Special Operations Forces Have Made to...
Museum Lecture Series 57: America's SECRET MiG Squadron
Retired Col. Gaillard R. Peck Jr. addresses the 10-year period that the U.S. Air Force secretly trained Air Force, Navy and Marine fighter a...
Museum Lecture Series 58: Return and renewal with honor: Messages for all of us
Retired Maj. Gen. John Borling shares his experiences as a prisoner of war, along with the poetry and prose he composed and memorized.
Museum Lecture Series 59: The US Air Force's mission to help create Afghan air power
Col. Robert A. Strasser and Lt. Col. Tay W. Johannes discuss experiences in building the Afghan Air Force, including resources, organization...
Museum Lecture Series 60: The Hexagon KH-9 Reconnaissance Satellite
Phil Pressel discusses the last orbiting reconnaissance camera that used film for photography and how it played an important part in U.S. in...
Museum Lecture Series 62: Pushing the Envelope: Vision and Genius in the R&D Gallery
Dr. Squire L. Brown discusses the museum’s Research & Development Gallery, which exhibits a unique collection of aircraft that challenged th...
Museum Lecture Series 61: Titan II - The Few but the 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...
Museum Lecture Series 63: B-29 Bockscar
Retired Col. Joseph Sweeney, the son of Bockscar pilot Gen. Charles Sweeney who was at the controls when the aircraft dropped the bomb on Au...
Museum Lecture Series 55: 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...
Museum Lecture Series 54: America's Canine Heroes: The story of military working dogs
Dogster.com editor/writer Maria Goodavage discusses the four-legged heroes who serve our country, what they bring to the fight, how they do...
Museum Lecture Series 53: 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...
Museum Lecture Series 52: The Air Force in Space -- and on the Moon: The Flights of Apollo 9 and Apollo 15
Former NASA astronaut and retired Air Force colonel David R. Scott talks about his three space missions: Gemini VIII, Apollo 9 and Apollo 15...
Museum Lecture Series 51: The Secret World of Space Reconnaissance
Learn about the Gambit 1 KH-7, Gambit 3 KH-8 and Hexagon KH-9 reconnaissance satellites during this presentation by CIA officers Dr. Robert...
Museum Lecture Series 50: Air Force One - Zero Failure
(Ret.) Col. Mark W. Tillman, the nation’s 12th presidential pilot, gives a first-hand account of remarkable moments in history with his expe...
Museum Lecture Series 49: The Tuskegee Airmen: An Illustrated History, 1939-1949
Dr. Daniel L. Haulman, an historian with Air Force Historical Research Agency, discusses the Tuskegee Airmen, who were for decades virtually...
Museum Lecture Series 48: Six months with a critical care air transport team RN in Afghanistan
Lt. Col. Deborah Lehker speaks about her deployment to Kandahar, Afghanistan, as a Critical Care Air Transport Team (CCATT) nurse and the go...
Museum Lecture Series 47: Aircraft and Aces: The fight for air superiority over Korea, 1950-1953
Dr. Kenneth P. Werrell discusses the Korean War, which saw the first and largest jet-versus-jet fighter conflict of all time. Despite many d...
Museum Lecture Series 46: Covert Air Reconnaissance in Europe: USAFE operations, 1946-1990
Lt. Col. (Ret.) John Bessette, who flew as a navigator and served in air refueling, airlift and gunship assignments, presents “Covert Air Re...