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Bagrams new arrivals

Mine-resistant ambush-protected all-terrain vehicles wait to be unloaded from a Boeing 747 Nov. 9, 2009, at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. The M-ATVs support mounted patrols, reconnaissance, security, convoy protection, communications, command and control, and combat service support. The M-ATV is designed to replace the up-armored Humvee in Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Felicia Juenke)

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Bagrams new arrivals

Airmen from the 455th Expeditionary Aerial Port Squadron assist in unloading mine-resistant ambush-protected all-terrain vehicles Nov. 9, 2009, at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. The M-ATVs were flown on a Boeing 747 and are designed to replace the up-armored Humvee in Afghanistan. The M-ATVs support small-unit combat operations in highly restricted rural, mountainous and urban environments. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Felicia Juenke)

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Bagrams new arrivals

A mine-resistant ambush-protected all-terrain vehicle waits to be unloaded Nov. 9, 2009, from a Boeing 747 at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. The M-ATVs support mounted patrols, reconnaissance, security, convoy protection, communications, command and control, and combat service support. The M-ATV is designed to replace the up-armored Humvee in Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Felicia Juenke)

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Bagrams new arrivals

The 455th Expeditionary Aerial Port Squadron receives a group of mine-resistant ambush-protected all-terrain vehicles delivered Nov. 9, 2009, by a Boeing 747 at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. The M-ATVs support mounted patrols, reconnaissance, security, convoy protection, communications, command and control and combat service support. The M-ATV is designed to replace the up-armored Humvee in Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Felicia Juenke)

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Ares I-X test rocket launched

With more than 12 times the thrust produced by a Boeing 747 jet aircraft, the Constellation Program's Ares I-X test rocket roars off Launch Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida Oct. 28, 2009. The rocket produces 2.96 million pounds of thrust at liftoff and goes supersonic in 39 seconds. (NASA photo/Jim Grossmann)

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Acceptance crew ensures flight safety for Air Force

Tech. Sgt. Sidney De Leon checks the proper function of the opening of the C-17 Globemaster III cargo/door ramp in-flight while flying Oct. 15, 2009, along the coast of Long Beach, Calif. Whenever Boeing rolls a new C-17 off the plant, Sergeant De Leon and his team have to make sure it's ready for the Air Force to fly. Sergeant De Leon is a Defense Contract Management Agency C-17 acceptance crew member. (U.S. Air Force photo/Col. Michael Coolidge)

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Acceptance crew ensures flight safety for Air Force

Tech. Sgt. Sidney De Leon works with a Boeing loadmaster and engineer in checking a C-17 Globemaster III for cabin pressurization leaks Oct. 15, 2009, at Long Beach, Calif. Sergeant De Leon is a Defense Contract Management Agency C-17 acceptance crew member. (U.S. Air Force photo/Col. Michael Coolidge)

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Waverider meets Stratofortress

The X-51A WaveRider hypersonic flight test vehicle was uploaded to an Air Force Flight Test Center B-52 Stratofortress at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., July 17 for fit testing. Two B-52 test flights are planned this fall prior to the X-51's first hypersonic scramjet flight over the Pacific Ocean scheduled in December. Representatives from the Air Force Research Laboratory, DARPA, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and Boeing are partnering on the X-51A technology demonstrator program. (U.S. Air Force photo/Chad Bellay)

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Waverider meets Stratofortress

The X-51A WaveRider hypersonic flight test vehicle was uploaded to an Air Force Flight Test Center B-52 Stratofortress at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., July 17 for fit testing. Two B-52 test flights are planned this fall prior to the X-51's first hypersonic scramjet flight over the Pacific Ocean scheduled in December. Representatives from the Air Force Research Laboratory, DARPA, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and Boeing are partnering on the X-51A technology demonstrator program. (U.S. Air Force photo/Chad Bellay)

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Waverider meets Stratofortress

On the flightline of Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Staff Sgt. Jonathan Young prepares to upload the X-51A WaveRider hypersonic flight test vehicle to a B-52 Stratofortress July 17 for fit testing. Two B-52 test flights are planned this fall prior to the X-51's first hypersonic scramjet flight over the Pacific Ocean scheduled in December. Representatives from the Air Force Research Laboratory, DARPA, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and Boeing are partnering on the X-51A technology demonstrator program. Sergeant Young is with the 412th Maintenance Group. (U.S. Air Force photo/Chad Bellay)

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12-nation Heavy Airlift Wing takes flight with first C-17

SAC 01, the first of three C-17 Globemaster IIIs to be flown by multinational aircrews from the 12-nation Strategic Airlift Capability Program's Heavy Airlift Wing, awaits its maiden flight home July 14 from Boeing's C-17 final assembly facility in Long Beach, Calif., to P?pa Air Base, Hungary. At the hands of HAW pilots from Norway, Sweden and the U.S., SAC 01 departed Long Beach July 14. (U.S. Air Force photo/Joseph Juarez)

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Air Force Week in Photos

Air Force Week in Photos for June 5 highlights photos from around the Air Force. In this NASA photo, a NASA-modified Boeing 747 carries Space Shuttle Atlantis off the runway at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., June 1 on the first leg of the ferry flight back to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (U.S. Air Force illustration)

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Piggyback

Space Shuttle Atlantis is carried on a NASA-modified Boeing 747 off Runway 22 at Edwards Air Force Base in California on the first leg of the ferry flight back to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida June 1. (NASA photo)

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Photo essay: Shuttle transitions through Air Force bases

Space Shuttle Atlantis riding atop a NASA-modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft taxies after landing June 2 at Columbus Air Force Base, Miss. Columbus AFB was the shuttle's final stop for fuel before finishing its journey to Kennedy Space Center, Fla. (U.S. Air Force photo/Mary Crump)

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Photo essay: Shuttle transitions through Air Force bases

090602-F-5506C-338.jpg Erinn Benge watches as Space Shuttle Atlantis, riding atop a modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, taxies after landing June 2 at Columbus Air Force Base, Miss. Columbus AFB was the shuttle's final stop for fuel before finishing its journey to Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Ms. Benge is wife of Master Sgt. Warren Benge, the 14th Force Support Squadron first sergeant. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Jacob Corbin).

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Photo essay: Shuttle transitions through Air Force bases

Space Shuttle Atlantis riding atop a NASA-modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft lands June 2 at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. The shuttle is being ferried from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., back to Florida after a 13-day mission in space to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. (U.S. Air Force photo/Alan Boedeker)

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Photo essay: Shuttle transitions through Air Force bases

Space Shuttle Atlantis riding atop a NASA-modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft lands June 2 at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. The shuttle was on its way back to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and stopped at Lackland AFB to refuel. (U.S. Air Force photo/Alan Boedeker)

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Photo essay: Shuttle transitions through Air Force bases

Space Shuttle Atlantis riding atop a NASA-modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft lands June 2 at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. The shuttle was on its way back to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and stopped at Lackland AFB to refuel. (U.S. Air Force photo/Alan Boedeker)

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Photo essay: Shuttle transitions through Air Force bases

Space Shuttle Atlantis riding atop a NASA-modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft makes its final approach before landing June 2 at Columbus Air Force Base, Miss. The base was the shuttle's final stop for fuel before finishing its journey to Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (U.S. Air Force photo/Melissa Duncan)

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Multinational consortium celebrates milestone of first C-17

In his multinational role as chairman of the 12-nation Strategic Airlift Capability consortium, Brig. Gen. Richard Johnston signed the forward fuselage of the program's first C-17 Globemaster III after having driven a ceremonial rivet into the airframe during the "major join" ceremony at the Boeing final assembly facility. The C-17 will be delivered to the Heavy Airlift Wing, the SAC program's multinational operational unit, at Papa Air Base, Hungary, in July. (U.S. Air Force photo/Atiba Copeland)

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