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2 unusual facts about Air Staff


Gloster E.28/39

In April 1943, W4046 flew to Hatfield for a demonstration in front of the Prime Minister and members of the Air Staff.

SRAAM

In 1970 the British Ministry of Defence came to the conclusion that a better short-range missile was needed, and drew up a request for proposals (Air Staff Target 1218).


KCBS-FM

Currently, the station has no air staff save for Tami Heide with her "Jacktivities" (events and whatever announcements deemed worthy by "jack").


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7th Special Operations Squadron

Through aggressive Office of Defense coordination at the US Embassy in Raba, the cooperation of Royal Moroccan Air Force officials at the Air Staff and Kenitra Air Base, and the persistence of 7th SOS planners, we were once again flying Combat Talons through the Atlas mountains.

CFYN

Harvey Kirck's first on air staff job was as a newscaster on CJIC in 1948.

Chandra Nath Shastri

Often referred to by the title Pandit (from a very young age), he is an All India Radio (AIR) staff artist, Indian National Television Channel (Doordarshan) artist and also a stage performing artist.

Donald Hardman

The decision by Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies to appoint an RAF officer caused resentment in the Air Force, compounded when he stated his reason as being that there was "no RAAF officer of sufficient age, or operation experience, to take the post of Chief of the Air Staff", ignoring the wartime records of such figures as John McCauley and Frederick Scherger.

Edward Ellington

Edward Leonard Ellington, Marshal of the Royal Air Force, British Chief of the Air Staff

Francis Fogarty

In 1943 Fogarty was a member of the RAF mission to Ottawa and in August 1944 he became the Senior Air Staff Officer at the headquarters of No. 4 Group.

Kimiya Yui

He has piloted a F-15 Eagle fighter, and currently works in the Air Staff Office's Defense Planning Division.

KOZZ-FM

The air-staff, which had previously executed a freeform rock music format patterned after San Francisco's KSAN, adopted the newly created Superstars Album Oriented Rock format designed by the programing consulting firm of Burkhardt, Douglass and Associates six month's before.

KRWZ

The station's initial weekday on-air staff includes Denver radio veteran Hal Moore from 6 to 10 a.m., Bill Press from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., former KIMN and KXKL-FM deejay Randy Jay from 2 to 6 p.m. and Chuck St. John from 6 to 9 p.m., Wolfman Jack 9 to 10 p.m.

LeMay Range

Later, it was resighted from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), 1947–48, and named by Finn Ronne for General Curtis LeMay, Deputy Chief of Air Staff for Research and Development of the then United States Army Air Forces, which furnished equipment for the expedition.

Magdy Galal Sharawi

In late 2003, Sharawi visited Pakistan, meeting the Pakistani Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Kaleem Saadat.

Norman Anil Kumar Browne

A graduate of Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell Air Force Base, USA, he has held many appointments including Joint Director at Air War Strategy Cell at Air Headquarters, Chief Operations Officer and Air Officer Commanding of an Sukhoi Su-30 base, Air-I at Western Air Command and Assistant Chief of Air Staff (Intelligence) at Air Headquarters.

North American P-51 variants

The Vice-Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sir Wilfrid R. Freeman, lobbied vociferously for Merlin-powered Mustangs, insisting two of the five experimental Mustang Mk Xs be handed over to Carl Spaatz for trials and evaluation by the U.S. 8th Air Force in Britain.

Peter Harding

Sir Peter Harding (born 1933), retired Royal Air Force Chief of the Air Staff, and Chief of Defence Staff

Sadhashivan Radhakrishnan

Air Marshal Sadhashivan Radhakrishnan is a Senior Air Staff Officer (SASO) of the Indian Air Force’s Bangalore based Training Command.

Salaudeen Latinwo

Salaudeen Latinwo (born 1943) was part of the first set of people to be recruited into the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) in 1963, under the watchful eyes of the first Nigerian Chief of Air Staff, Colonel Gerhard Kahtz (GAF).

Shittu

Shittu Alao (born 1937), a Nigerian Air Force's Chief of the Air Staff

Valston Hancock

In March 1957, Hancock was one of three candidates, along with Air Vice Marshals Frederick Scherger and Allan Walters, touted as possible successors to Air Marshal Sir John McCauley as Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), the RAAF's senior position.

WDRV

The on-air staff includes morning host Steve Downes (the voice of the Master Chief in the Halo video games), Kathy Voltmer with morning news and traffic, Bob Stroud (middays), Bobby Skafish (afternoons), Phil Manicki (evenings), and Greg Easterling (overnights).

WKXW

Philadelphia radio Hall of Famer Hy Lit and his son Sam Lit, who anchored the air staff in the early 80s

WWBB

Notable former WWBB on-air staff includes Mark Ambrose, Ray Anthony, Jed Barton, Big John Bina, Robby Bridges, Daria Bruno, Kenny Cool, Melissa Culross, Austin Davis, Bob Kay, Amy Hagan, Tiffany Hill, Michele Hughes, Larry "Ice Cold" Kruger, Roger Letendre, Rick Lyle, Bobby Michaels, Rebecca Morse-Whitten, Rockin' Rob Mullin, Mike O'Reilly, Cruisin' Bruce Palmer, Paul Perry, Keri Rodrigues, Jeff Ryan, Randy Saxx, Dr. Don Spencer, Tom St. John, Norm Thibeault, and Steve Valentine.