Iris Cummings Critchell, 104, Dies; Olympic Swimmer Turned Aviator
The last survivor of the American team that competed in Hitler’s 1936 Games in Berlin, she went on to become a wartime pilot ...
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Trump's DEI order strips Air Force curriculum of 1st Black pilots, female WWII pilots
The U.S. Air Force will no longer teach its recruits about the Tuskegee Airmen, the more than 15,000 Black pilots, mechanics and cooks in the segregated Army of World War II, an official with the ...
US Air Force Cuts Training Course on Tuskegee and Female WWII Pilots
The decision has sparked backlash from advocacy groups, particularly Tuskegee Airmen Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to ...
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More DEI fallout: Air Force scraps course that used videos of Tuskegee Airmen, female WWII pilots
WASHINGTON — The Air Force has removed training courses with videos of its storied Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs — the female World War II pilots who were ...
Retired Director of Aviation Accident investigations for the FAA gives insight on DC plane crash
Patrick Hempen, the now-retired FAA director of aviation accident investigations, said several failures have to happen for a collision like this to occur.