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A force to be reckoned with Posted on 9 August 2010 in Defence The Egyptian Air Force (EAF) or Al Quwwat Al Jawwiya Il Misriya, is one of the largest air arms in the region and is also one of the longest established. Formed in 1930 as the Egyptian Army Air Force, it became fully independent in 1937. Initially it had close links with the British Royal Air Force and was primarily equipped with British-supplied aircraft. Spitfires gave way to Meteors and Vampires before the 1952 revolution, after which the new president, General Gamal Abdel Nasser, turned to the Soviet...

ZHUKOVSKY, Russia, Aug. 21, 2005 – Staff Sgt. Christy Jeffreys isn't new to traveling. In the last nine years since she's been in the Air Force, her job as a boom operator on the KC-10 Extender has taken her to more than 10 different countries. But this was the first time her job has also made her feel like a celebrity. Jeffreys, a reservist assigned to the 79th Air Refueling Squadron at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., was part of a team of about 100 people representing the U.S. military at the Moscow International Air Show and Space Salon here...

F-15 Fighter Lost Over Iraq, 2 Missing By HANS GREIMEL .c The Associated Press CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar (AP) - Coalition rescue teams were searching early Wednesday for two U.S. airmen from a F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet that went down over Iraq two days earlier. A U.S. military source said the plane went down near the city of Tikrit, the hometown of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The town is believed to be a stronghold of Iraqi resistance. It was unclear whether the plane was shot down, the U.S. Central Command said. The fighter vanished early Monday, but its loss...