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1908 H. G. Wells War in Air iv. §3 The German airfleet.

1910 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily News 9 Sept. 15/1 France gave the world a new record today by adding an ‘air division’ to the regular military maneuvers of her army.

1911 Times 25 Feb. 7/3 The Balloon School is being reorganized and will be transformed into an Air Battalion.

1914 Times 10 Sept. 5/6 (heading) Naval air wing.

1915 Times 14 Oct. 9/3 A public meeting..to urge the Government to adopt a declared policy of air reprisals for Zeppelin raids on London..and to offer the Government all possible support in the formation of an Air Ministry.

1916 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 4 Jan. 11/6 Baron Cowdray has been appointed chairman of the British Air Board in succession to Baron Sydenham.

1916 Flight 8 112/1 (heading) An Air Ministry at last.

1917 Act 7 & 8 Geo. V c. 51 An Act to make provision for the establishment, administration, and discipline of an Air Force, the establishment of an Air Council, and for purposes connected therewith.

1917 Times 9 Mar. 7/1 One of the bitterest lessons that the German Air Staff have had to learn.

1917 Flying 31 Oct. 225/2 The disaster which befell the German air armada.

1922 Times 10 Nov. 9/3 The Air Command in India has been raised to an air vice-marshal's command.

1940 E. C. Shepherd Britain's Air Power 27 But for the Fleet Air Arm, which is exclusively controlled by the Admiralty, the whole of British Air Power is thus under the direction of a single staff—the Air Staff—and is commanded by R.A.F.

1946 A. Lee German Air Force ii. 19 The Luftwaffe was organized territorially into Air Fleets (Luft-flotten). There were four immediately before the war.

1950 ‘D. Divine’ King of Fassarai xiv. 108 Should have the recon reports by now. Get through to Air Command again.

1962 Guardian 3 Oct. 3/7 The Air Ministry should..mitigate the ‘nuisance’ of a station in the National Park by keeping buildings..away from the main road.

1983 Times 6 Aug. 6/2 His [sc. Ronald Reagan's] response is to dispatch huge naval and air armadas to the waters off the Nicaraguan coasts.

1985 Summary of World Broadcasts Pt. 1: U.S.S.R. (B.B.C.) 18 May SU/7954/A4/2 Exercises were carried out involving the transfer from the US air base in Carlsberg to Turkish territory of the US 301th [sic] Special Air Battalion, weapons and ordnance.

1993 Aviation Week & Space Technol. 8 Feb. 26/1 A recent advisory air board has broached several cost-cutting proposals.

1994 Air & Space Technol. Nov. 9/1 Radio intercept operators..were listening to the radar networks as they sent plotting data to their air command headquarters.

1998 Summary of World Broadcasts Pt. 5: Afr. & Latin Amer. (B.B.C.) (Nexis) 24 Dec. AL/D3418/A The head of state, commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, has, by the powers conferred on him as the chairman, Army Council, Navy Board, and Air Council respectively, approved the promotion of a number of senior officers.

2000 T. Clancy Bear & Dragon liii. 840 Its wide-body cargo jets were being taken into federal service under the terms of a Phase I call-up of the Civilian Reserve Air Fleet.

2001 UFO Mag. Jan. 65/2 (advt.) Highlights include:..(2) Previously-classified files on the so-called ‘Foo Fighter’ phenomenon from the archives of the British Air Ministry and the U.S. Air Force.

2001 Focus Oct. 29/3 The three hangars..house most of the 80 tactical aircraft of the air wing.

2002 N.Y. Sun (Nexis) 11 July (Internat. section) 5 [The officer], commander of Air Division 24, said the country is buying Russian-made..fighter planes.

2007 U.S. Federal News (Nexis) 8 June We're also working with Air Staff offices and other commands to develop an extranet that will allow AFMC users to post documents on secure Web sites.