Museum Lecture Series
Museum Lecture Series
National Museum of the U.S. Air Force
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 research, development and technology, and historians and authors.
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’ Secret Mission in Space.” During the presentation, the National Reconnaissance Office revealed information about recently declassified elements of the program.
Dec 30, 2015
Museum 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 the more than 30-year search for an Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF).
Dec 30, 2015
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 the Development of Air and Space Power, 1942 to 2012."
Sep 15, 2015
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 aircrews in an advanced joint training program against actual Soviet MiG jet fighters.
Sep 15, 2015
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.
Sep 15, 2015
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, organizational interactions, mission objectives and how historical events have influenced decision making.
Sep 15, 2015
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. intelligence and aerospace history.
Sep 15, 2015
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 the imagination and pushed the boundaries of flight.
Sep 15, 2015
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 to come to incapacitate the silo.
Sep 15, 2015
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 Aug. 9, 1945, will speak about his father and World War II.
Sep 15, 2015
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