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We are performing maintenance on Archangel by unifying catalog identification numbers, unifying search zones, and streamlining sorting methods. If you have bookmarked a file, you may need to update your URL. The same will be true with collection zones. In addition, new materials will be uploaded to this space for use. We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your patience.

Capstone

Just as a Capstone project is of high quality and high caliber research and ethics, this category serves as a place for serious analysis and research projects.

A Spiritual Connection: (Part I) The Birth of the Flying Wing

2021-08-08
By: The Kid
On: 8 August 2021
In: Articles, Capstone, History, USAF History

Modern design in many things often finds itself borrowing on old, tried, and true concepts. It’s no surprise either. After all, throughout history we find many instances where modern technology, strategy, design, and concepts can be traced and originated on something that already exists. Imagine, if you will, not reinventingContinue Reading

Birds of Prey: Lethality in the Skies

2020-05-23
By: The Kid
On: 23 May 2020
In: Articles, Capstone, History, USAF History

It’s a typical pattern of evolution.  Each generation recognizes something that was absurd or incredible in the past as ordinary in the present.  As time passes, evolution takes hold again, and we are left in awe of something new and truly amazing once again.  Mankind is full of such advancementsContinue Reading

Reaching for the Heavens: The Legendary Blackbird

2020-04-11
By: The Kid
On: 11 April 2020
In: Articles, Capstone, History, USAF History

Everyone is familiar with the concept of cause and effect.  For every action, there is a reaction of the same or lesser magnitude.  Sometimes the resulting reaction is just the first in a chain of events that leads up to something else.  A chain reaction, that’s what one might callContinue Reading

Front Line Atomic Deployment: The Madness of Cold War Military Doctrine

2020-02-28
By: The Kid
On: 28 February 2020
In: Articles, Capstone, History, USA History

The Cold War exhibited some the greatest inventions that mankind had to offer and provided the springboard that propelled technology and innovation ultimately to where we find ourselves today. The Atomic Age, confined within the Cold War era, not only embodied the advancement of nuclear technology, but it also includedContinue Reading

Fallen Angels: The Valkyrie Program – An Angel is Banished from the Heavens

2019-08-16
By: The Kid
On: 16 August 2019
In: Articles, Capstone, History, USAF History

XB-70 Ship Number 1 in her permanent home at the National Air and Space Museum in Dayton, Ohio. 8 June 1966, a day of horror depending on where you were sitting.  Fireballs and explosions would have rained down from the heavens as an angel fell from the sky.  Cast outContinue Reading

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