This is your official Air Force Academy History Update for the Week of Aug 30th through September 5th —  This week, back in 1958 — The movement of cadets from […]

This is your official Air Force Academy History Update for the Week of Aug 23rd through the 29th —  This week, back in 1962 — The Academy begins hosting the […]

This is your official Air Force Academy History Update for the Week of Aug 16th through the 22nd —  This week, back in 1948 — General Muir Fairchild, Vice Chief […]

This is your official Air Force Academy History Update for the Week of Aug 9th through the 15th —  This week, back in 1965 — Flying North American F-100D Super Sabres, the Thunderbirds fly their 1,000th show at Waukegan, Illinois.  Captain Henry Canterbury, Class of ’59, had joined the team […]

This is your official Air Force Academy History Update for the Week of Aug 2nd through the 8th —  This week, back in 1969 — Major James Morton Jr., Class of ’60, is killed when his F-4E ‘Phantom II’ aircraft is struck by hostile fire and crashes in Quang Nam […]

This is your official Air Force Academy History Update for the Week of Jul 26th through the Aug 1st —  This week, back in 1962 — Six Academy cadets begin a 15-day stay in the crew compartment of a simulated space vehicle.  While performing tasks similar to those in actual space […]

This is your official Air Force Academy History Update for the Week of Jul 19th through the 25th —  This week, back in 1939 — Lieutenant Colonel Dwight Eisenhower, while serving as a military aide to the Philippine Commonwealth Government, writes in his diary “So now I’m a licensed […]

This is your official Air Force Academy History Update for the Week of Jul 12th through the 18th —  This week, back in 1960 — Colonel George Simler concludes his three-year term as the Academy’s second Director of Athletics.  Colonel Simler later conceived the idea of an annual […]

This is your official Air Force Academy History Update for the Week of Jul 5th through the 11th —  This week, back in 1961 — Lieutenant General Mike Lee, Commander, Air Defense Command, presents the Academy with a Bomarc missile during a ceremony at the Visitor Center near […]

This is your official Air Force Academy History Update for the Week of June 28th through July 4th —  This week, back in 1965 — For the first time, three members of the same family are enrolled at the Academy during the same time: Cadet Don Hallenbeck, Class of […]