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Strategic Air Command Air Force Secretary Stuart Symington chose to locate the Air Force's crucial long-range atomic strike force at Offutt primarily because the base was centrally located on the North American continent, placing it well beyond the existing range of potentially hostile bombers or missiles. SAC’s first bombers were primarily World War II B-29s, with the B-50 and B-36 arriving in the SAC inventory during 1948 and 1949. SAC alerts were 24-hour, with precise requirements for ever-faster takeoffs dependent on the type of scenario in test. www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/agency/sac.htm   (1930 words)

Strategic Air Command - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Strategic Air Command or SAC (1946-1992) was the branch of the United States Air Force in charge of America's bomber-based and ballistic missile-based strategic nuclear arsenal, as well as the infrastructure necessary to support their operations (such as tanker aircraft to fuel the bombers and, until 1959, fighter escorts). SAC's original headquarters was Bolling Field, the headquarters of the disbanded Continental Air Force, in Washington, DC. SAC, TAC (Tactical Air Command), and MAC (Military Airlift Command) were reorganized into two commands, AMC (Air Mobility Command) and ACC (Air Combat Command). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Strategic_Air_Command   (2205 words)

Chickscope 1.5: Explore: Embryology: Day 15 - The Respiratory System: How Birds Breathe As air passes through the ductwork of the lungs, oxygen in the air is exchanged for carbon dioxide in the blood of capillaries winthin the chamber walls. Compression or expansion of the air sacs occurs when the size of the body cavity in which they are housed changes. The theory suggests that a breath of air is drawn through the trachea and mesobronchus into the posterior air sacs (abdominal and caudal thoracic) when chest muscles draw the ribs forward and lower the sternum. chickscope.beckman.uiuc.edu /explore/embryology/day15/how.html   (714 words)

ParrotChronicles.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) The bubbles are either pockets of air - called subcutaneous emphysema - that has escaped from a leaking air sac, or they are air sacs located just beneath the skin that are distended due to an inflammation called air saculitis. (In pelicans, air sacs under the skin on the front of their bodies allow them to dive from 30 feet without injuring themselves and then pop back up to the surface.) If the wall of an air sac tears, air will migrate up and form a pocket under the skin. When air sacs that sit just beneath the skin become infected or damaged and their connection to the rest of the respiratory system is blocked, they also can distend and form what look like bubbles. www.parrotchronicles.com /departments/airsacs_askdrharris.htm   (564 words)

Strategic Air Command (SAC) The Strategic Air Command (SAC) was established on 21 March 1946, as one of the three combat commands of the U.S. Army Air Forces. General Carl "Tooey" Spaatz, the Commanding General of The Army Air Forces gave SAC a permanent mission 10 Oct 1946: Strategic Air Command was to attain an immediate state of combat readiness and to stand by for immediate operations, either alone or jointly with other forces, against enemies of the United States. By 1960 a third SAC's bombers and tankers were on 15-minute ground alert, combat ready and armed for nuclear combat and by July 1961, 50% of SACs bombers and tankers were on ground alert and a classified number of nuclear-armed bombers were constantly airborne. www.zianet.com /jpage/airforce/history/majcoms/sac.html   (695 words)

Fairchild AFB - United States Nuclear Forces Fairchild Air Force Base is located 12 miles west of the city of Spokane, Washington adjacent to US Highway 2 and 3 miles north of Interstate 90. On September 1, 1991, under Air Force reorganization the 92nd Bombardment Wing (Heavy) was redesignated the 92nd Wing, emphasizing a dual bombing and refueling role. On July 1, 1994, the 92nd Bomb Wing was redesignated the 92nd Air Refueling Wing, and Fairchild AFB was transferred from Air Combat Command (ACC) to Air Mobility Command (AMC), in a ceremony marking the creation of the largest air refueling wing in the Air Force. www.strategic-air-command.com /bases/Fairchild_AFB.htm   (995 words)

Research News The Air Sac Mite, Sternostoma tracheacolum, is a respiratory parasite which is often seen in passerine type birds, causing severe respiratory distress in the affected individuals. As far as it is known, the Air Sac Mite lives and reproduces on the epithelial surface of the respiratory tract, including the areas of the paranasal sinuses, trachea, syrinx, bronchi, lungs and air sacs. One interesting aspect of the Air Sac Mite life cycle, is that the female is Larviparous, this means that the Nymph stage occurs within the adult female Air Sac Mite, thus the female "gives birth" to Larvae which soon go on to mature into adults. www.geocities.com /canarytales_lindahogan/research.htm   (1622 words)

Strategic Air Command   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) As a result, the Strategic and Tactical Air Commands (SAC and TAC) were created on Mar. 21, 1946, establishing the offensive composition of the USAF that existed for more than 40 years. SAC was one of the major considerations of the expanding USAF. Although SAC was founded in 1946, it was General LeMay's driving force that made "SAC" into a household word and the most potent military force in history. www.wpafb.af.mil /museum/history/postwwii/sac.htm   (356 words)

Lady Gouldian Finch .com - Air Sac Mites Air Sac Mites have been reported in several bird species but is most commonly found in Lady Gouldian Finches and Canaries. The air sacs communicate with the bronchus and with several air filled bones such as the femur and humerous. As far as it is known, the complete life cycle of the Air Sac Mite is approximately fourteen to twenty one days. www.ladygouldianfinch.com /features_airsacmites.mgi   (1618 words)

Surface Air Consumption Rate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Scuba regulators are designed to deliver air to a diver at the same pressure as the surrounding water pressure, at ambient pressure. With our SAC number of 25, it is easy to calculate our consumption rate for depths of 33, 66, 99 feet etc. We know we are under 3 times the pressure at 66 feet, so we would use 3 times as much air, or 75 pounds per minute at this depth. It is important to note that SAC Rate takes into account the assumption that you are exerting the same amount of energy at any given depth, and you are using the same size tank as you used when calculating your DCR. home.flash.net /~table/gasses/sac.htm   (638 words)

Air Bag Safety - The Police Notebook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) To date, completed investigations of air bag crashes show that many of the air bag injuries were due to the driver sitting too close to the air bag module or passengers riding unbuckled or incorrectly secured. To decrease the number of injuries and deaths caused by the combination of air bags and improperly restrained children, as well as those attributed to motorists being improperly secured, drivers must be made aware of correct safety procedures. Passenger-side air bags reduce the overall fatality risk of car passengers age 13 and older by a statistically significant 13.5 percent. www.ou.edu /oupd/kidseat.htm   (3253 words)

Air sac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Air sac is an anatomical term with several meanings: Pulmonary alveolus, informally known as an air sac, one of innumerable spherical outcroppings of the respiratory bronchioles in the mammalian lung, the primary sites of gas exchange with the blood This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Air_sac   (159 words)

air sac - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about air sac The sacs subdivide into further air spaces which partially replace the marrow in many of the bird's bones. The air space in these bones assists flight by making them lighter. This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. encyclopedia.farlex.com /air%20sac   (137 words)

Air Force Magazine He was executive director of the Air Force Association, continued his affiliation with such organizations as the Atlantic Council and the Defense Science Board, and joined the international division of a major law firm. SAC had recently added the Short-Range Attack Missile (SRAM) as a standoff weapon for its B-52s and was deploying Minuteman III missiles with multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicle warheads to replace the Minuteman I ICBMs. In those days, Dougherty said, SAC maintained a fairly constant level of communication all the time because the Soviets were known to be monitoring the volume and watching for a sudden increase. www.afa.org /magazine/Feb2005/0205russ.asp   (4290 words)

The Finch Niche - Finch Information & Articles by Myra - Air Sac Mites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Air sac mites are most commonly found to infest Gouldians and Canaries. These mites do their damage by infesting the air sacs, trachea and sometimes lungs of a finch. It is currently the easiest and safest way to cure your finches of air sac mites. www.finches.org /f-airsacmites.mgi   (418 words)

air sac hemorhage - QuakerParrots.com Forum We took him to the vet that day and were told that it was a ruptured air sac and that it should heal on its own and is not life threatening. The air sacs are connected to the respiratory system and fill up with air when they fly, enabling the wind to hold them up better. But with JoJo, his air sac on his right shoulder is leaking - so the air that goes into his sac leaks out and gets trapped under his skin causing a rather large bulge. www.quakerparrots.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=4643   (1425 words)

Home Page - Strategic-Air-Command.com Certainly the hardware and operations are an essential part of it, but the real story of SAC is the interplay of its men and their machines. The men of SAC had to endure the day-to-day experience of actually fighting the Cold War, the only war ever won without a shot being fired, but one that changed the world. SAC had numerous exercises, operations, and command controls. www.strategic-air-command.com /home.htm   (1100 words)

Pharyngula::Dinosaur Lungs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Instead of inflating their lungs directly, birds inflate the air sacs first, and then the sacs are compressed like a bellows to drive air through the lungs. One set of sacs is being inflated by inhalation, and then air is expelled from the sacs through the lungs and to the other set, and then expelled from the sacs to the trachea. Another is that the air always moves in the same direction; the blue arrows in the diagram show that the flow of air through the lungs is always from left to right. pharyngula.org /index/weblog/comments/dino_lungs   (2998 words)

Andersen AFB Concurrent with this move, HQ 3d Air Division was activated at Andersen AFB on 18 June 1954 to control all SAC units operating in the Far East. As operations diminished in Southeast Asia, HQ Eighth Air Force moved to Barksdale AFB, Louisiana, and the 3d Air Division was reactivated at Andersen on 1 January 1975. On 1 October 1994, the 633d Air Base Wing was inactivated and the 36th Air Base Wing was activated in keeping with the Air Force Chief of Staff''s policy of keeping the most highly decorated and longest serving Air Force units on active duty. www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/andersen.htm   (4571 words)

Re: CNN on Lungs and Feathers The potential for caudal air sacs seems a lot more important to the bird issue, since they have fewer non-respiratory uses and are the primary engine of respiration in modern birds. Thre has to be a way to power them, and its hard to apply mechanical stress to an air sac that's encased in bone. Ruben also points out (I lack the knowledge to criticize this) that dinos do not have the rib modifications necessary to power the caudal air sac in the same fashion as birds, and that the dino sternum seems inadequate to the task. dml.cmnh.org /1998Jan/msg00001.html   (438 words)

A New Era: From SAC to STRATCOM - Major Jon M. Fontenot, United States Air Force SAC was very good at its job, but unexpectedly the threat was over--the Warsaw Pact was gone, the Berlin Wall fell, and the Soviet Union dissolved into independent states. SAC was created along with two other major air commands: the Air Defense Command and the Tactical Air Command on March 21, 1946. The reasons were simple: (1) SAC was the nations deterrent against the Soviet aggression, (2) SAC had two-thirds of the nuclear triad (B-52 bombers and ICBMs), and (3) SAC had the only strategic war planning system to build the Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP). www.fas.org /spp/eprint/fontenot.htm   (4920 words)

The American Experience | Race for the Superbomb |Lt. General James Edmundson on: The Mission of the Strategic Air ... JE: SAC was the bombing arm of the new Air Force. The Air Force, as it was organized initially, had put its fighting units into three different organizations: SAC (Strategic Air Command) with the bombardment capability; the ground support capability was TAC (the Tactical Air Command); and the air defense capability was ADC (Air Defense Command). But as SAC was being formed and through the early days of SAC, it was to have been a bombardment force. www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/bomb/filmmore/reference/interview/edmund06.html   (551 words)

Air Sac Mite The air sac mite that severely affects the Gouldian Finch and other species causes respiratory distress and death. The mite lives and reproduces on the surface of the respiratory tract with the complete life cycle of the mite being 14 to 21 days. For aviaries of canaries and Gouldians, 3 monthly re-treatments are necessary to keep the birds free of air sac mite. www.birds2grow.com /art-airsac.html   (331 words)

definition of air sac One of the spaces in different parts of the bodies of birds, which are filled with air and connected with the air passages of the lungs; an air cell. Air, An, And, Are, Birds, Bodies, Cell, Connected, Different, Filled, In, Lungs, Of, One, Parts, Passages, Spaces, The, Which, With Air, An, And, Are, Birds, Bodies, Cell, Connected, Different, In, Lungs, Of, One, Parts, The, Which, With www.brainydictionary.com /words/ai/airsac128434.html   (108 words)

Air Sac Bird Mites Imagine...A large family of Air Sac Bird Mites crawling around in your nostrils. Air Sac Mites can be devastating to your canary or other pet bird.  In a severe infestation these blood suckers will take up residence in your bird's Air Sac Mites can get so numerous they'll kill your pet bird.  Use good canary care and watch for these... www.canaryadvisor.com /bird-mites.html   (530 words)

Health Care - Mites If you suspect air sac mites, hold the bird up to your ear and listen for a clicking sound. Air sac mites are common in gouldian finches, as well as wild-caught finches. Air sack mites are transferable to the babies, which probably wouldn't make it very long with a mite infestation. www.lostmymarblz.com /fl-health-mites.htm   (2001 words)

Ernest Harmon Air Force Base, Stephenville, Newfoundland In June 1941 the name was officially changed to Ernest Harmon Air Base, it was named after Captain Ernest Emery Harmon, an Army Air Corps pilot who was killed during a test flight in 1933. Flight Interceptor Squadron (FIS) was transferred from SAC to ADC in December 1948 at Selfridge AFB with F-80s. The squadron transitioned to F-86As in the fall of 1949 and to F-94Bs in the fall of 1950. www.angelfire.com /tn/petrafirst/Harmon.html   (190 words)

Swimbladder Disease, Flip over, air sac disease: Goldfish health and disease information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) The swim bladder is a small epithelium-lined sac in the anterior abdomen which is responsible for maintaining buoyancy. sac inflates if the fish needs to be more buoyant, and it deflates if the fish needs to be less buoyant. The virus attacks the epithelium of the sac and inflammation occurs which makes the epithelium too thick for gases to diffuse across. www.koivet.com /swimbladder.html   (1056 words)

The Strategic Air Command Tribute Site This site is in tribute to all those who served in SAC between 1946 and 1992, keeping the peace, deterring nuclear war, and finally winning the Cold War. The sections in this site include Information on Strategic Air Command, how The Strategic Air Command Insignia came to be, other SAC unit insignia and information, information on the creator of this site, and information on what became an "icon" for SAC - The B-52 Stratofortress. You may also wish to help preserve the legacy of SAC by becoming a member of The Strategic Air and Space Museum. www.jeromegoolsby.net /military/sac.html   (236 words)

air sac rupture? - PetLovers.Com The first thing I thought of was an air sac rupture but when it went down I ruled it out. I know of an amazon who has major air sac problems, and he gets all puffed up and every once in a while he has to get the air let out by a vet. Air sacs are located inside the neck, chest and belly. forums.petlovers.com /vb/showthread.php?t=3441   (1075 words)

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