May 22, 1993. Lt. Cmdr. Kathryn P. Hire, the first woman in the
 Navy to be assigned to a combat unit, flies her first mission as a
 tactical crew member on a Lockheed P-3C Update III maritime patrol
 aircraft during a bombing exercise. Commander Hire flies with VP-62,
 a Reserve unit based at NAS Jacksonville, Fla. The first Air Force
 female combat pilot will be 1st Lt. Jeannie Flynn, who will take her
 place in an F-15E cockpit later in 1993.
     May 25-August 3, 1993. The first successful demonstration of
 aerobraking (using atmospheric drag to slow a spacecraft) puts the
 Magellan Venus probe in a lower orbit. The probe suffers no ill
 effects.
     June 14, 1993. The first operational McDonnell Douglas C-17A
 Globemaster III transport is delivered to the 437th Airlift Wing
 at Charleston AFB, S.C.
     June 17, 1993. Lt. Col. Patricia Fornes becomes the first woman
 to lead an Air Force ICBM unit.
 She assumes command of the 740th Missile Squadron at Minot AFB,
 S.D., a squadron once commanded by her father.
     June 29, 1993. The Air Force rolls out the first Boeing OC-135B
 Open Skies Treaty observation aircraft at Wright-Patterson AFB,
 Ohio. It is the first of three that will be used by the US to verify
 foreign compliance with arms treaties.
     July 1, 1993. Air Education and Training Command established.
     July 1, 1993. Day-to-day control of ICBMs passes to Air Force
 Space Command.
     July 8, 1993. Slingsby Aviation Ltd. rolls out the first T-3A
 Enhanced Flight Screener for the Air Force at its plant in York,
 England.
     July 30, 1993. The multiaxis thrust-vectoring system installed
 on the VISTA NF-16 is employed for the first time in a test at the
 Air Force Flight Test Center. By September 1993, the aircraft will
 achieve a transient angle of attack of 110 and a sustained AOA of
 80.
     August 5, 1993. The AFTI F-16 completes its 600th mission at the
 Air Force Flight Test Center. The flight collects data for the
 AFTI/F-16 Ground Collision Avoidance System test effort.
     August 6, 1993. Sheila E. Widnall, associate provost and pro-
 fessor of aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Insti-
 tute of Technology, becomes Secretary of the Air Force. Dr. Widnall
 is the first female Secretary for any of the armed services. After
 Senate confirmation, she is sworn in on August 6.
     August 11-14, 1993. Global Enterprise, an ACC exercise to train
 aircrews for long-distance power-projection missions, is carried out
 from Ellsworth AFB, S.D. Two Rockwell B-1B Lancers are flown to
 Europe, across the Mediterranean and Red Seas around the Arabian
 Peninsula, and land at a staging base in southwest Asia. After ex-
 changing crews, the B-1s are flown from southwest Asia, via Japan,
 over the Aleutians, and then back to South Dakota. Total flight time
 is 37.3 hours, and the twenty-four-hour first leg is the longest
 flight ever made by a B-1B crew.
     August 17, 1993. The first of 350 early model Boeing B-52
 bombers is cut into five pieces with a 13,000-pound steel guillotine
 at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz. The bombers were destroyed under the
 terms of the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks II Treaty.
     August 18, 1993. McDonnell Douglas's Delta Clipper Experimental
 (DC-X) subscale single-stage-to-orbit prototype makes a sixty-second
 first flight at the White Sands Missile Range, N.M. The forty-two-
 foot-tall vehicle takes off vertically, hovers at about 150 feet,
 moves laterally approximately 350 feet, and lands tail-down.
     August 24 and 26, 1993. Two mixed Air Force and contractor crews
 set recognized class time-to-climb and altitude records (jet air-
 craft) in a McDonnell Douglas C-17A Globemaster III at Long Beach,
 Calif. All four of the records still stand.
     September 10, 1993. Boeing rolls out the 1,000th 747 commercial
 jetliner in ceremonies at its Seattle, Wash., plant. The milestone
 aircraft, a 747-400, will be delivered to Singapore Airlines. The
 first jumbo jet was rolled out in September 1968.
     September 15, 1993. Boeing announces that work on the first B-52H
 bomber to be adapted for conventional warfare missions has been com-
 pleted at its facility in Wichita, Kan.
     October 1, 1993. The USAF's Officer Training School moves from
 Lockheed (That should be Lackland. Jim) AFB, Tex., to Maxwell AFB,
 Ala.
     October 8, 1993. Capt. Pamela A. Melroy and company pilot Richard
 M. Cooper set two recognized jet aircraft class records for altitude
 with a 70,000-kilogram payload (32,169 feet and greatest mass carried
 to a height of 2,000 meters (161,023 pounds) in a McDonnell Douglas
 C-17A Globemaster III at Edwards AFB, Calif. The records still stand.
     December 17, 1993. On the ninetieth anniversary of the Wright
 brothers' first sustained flight, the first operational Northrop B-2
 stealth bomber, The Spirit of Missouri, is delivered to the 509th
 Bomb Wing at Whiteman AFB, Mo.
     February 3, 1994. Air Education and Training Command receive its
 first T-3A enhanced flight screener aircraft at hondo Field, Tex.
     February 10, 1994. Lt. Jeannie Flynn, the first female selected
 for USAF combat pilot training completes her F-15E training.
     February 28, 1994. Air Force F-16s, operating under NATO command,
 shoot down four Bosnian Serb Super Galeb attack aircraft after twice
 warning the Serb jets to leave Bosnian airspace. It is NATO's first
 combat in its forty-five year history.
     April 7, 1994. Capt. Michael S. Menser (and crew) sets a recog-
 nized class record for 10,000-kilometer speed without payload (jet
 aircraft) of 599.59 mph flying from Grand Forks AFB, N.D., to Mon-
 roeville, Ala., to Mullan, Idaho, in a Rockwell B-1B Lancer. At the
 same time, Capt. R. F. Lewandowski (and crew) sets the recognized
 record for a different class for 10,000-kilometer speed without pay-
 load (jet aircraft) of 594.61 mph over the same course, also in a
 B-1. Both records still stand. End of Part 39
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