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FIRST FLIGHTS IN HISTORY | 2021 | Volume 48 | Number 4<br />
MILITARY AVIATION VISIONARIES<br />
AND PIONEERS<br />
EDITORS<br />
Leah Block, Editor<br />
Gilbert Martinez, Jr., Assistant Editor<br />
CORRESPONDENTS<br />
RozeLyn Beck Hank Coates<br />
Anne Constantin Birge LaVone Kay<br />
Andy Bredeson Amy Lauria<br />
Alan Brooks<br />
ART<br />
Farrah Underwood, Designer<br />
PRINTER<br />
Knight Abbey<br />
COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE STAFF<br />
Hank Coates, President hcoates@cafhq.org<br />
David Oliver, Chief Operating Officer doliver@cafhq.org<br />
Donna Blalack, Director of Administration & HR dblalack@cafhq.org<br />
Lance Linguist, CFO - Secretary/Treasurer llinguist@cafhq.org<br />
Bob Ehret, Controller behret@cafhq.org<br />
April Robinson, Unit Finance Coordinator arobinson@cafhq.org<br />
Melissa Herrington, Accounts Payable Analyst mherrington@cafhq.org<br />
Jim Lasche, Chief Aviation Officer j<a title="Digital Dispatch, April 2021 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d40cc13c?page=1"> FIRST FLIGHTS IN HISTORY | 2021 | Volume 48 |</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, April 2021 page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d40cc13c?page=2"> EDITORS Leah Block, Editor Gilbert Martinez, Jr.,</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, April 2021 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d40cc13c?page=3"> CONTENTS COLUMNS 4 6 20 PHOTO BY M</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, April 2021 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d40cc13c?page=4"> FLIGHTLEAD A New Strategy for CAF GROWTH Over th</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, April 2021 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d40cc13c?page=5"> OFFICIAL MERCHANDISE OF THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FOR</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, April 2021 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d40cc13c?page=6"> F LEET STATUS REPORT AS OF APRIL 2021 </a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, April 2021 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d40cc13c?page=7"> FEATURED RESTORATION PROJECTS P-40 W</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, April 2021 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d40cc13c?page=8"> FEATURE IT STARTED WITH THE FIRST</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, April 2021 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d40cc13c?page=9"> JOHN T. DANIELS , PUBLIC DOMAIN, VIA WIKIMEDIA CO</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, April 2021 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d40cc13c?page=10"> Orville Wright, age 34 in 1905 To verify their </a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, April 2021 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d40cc13c?page=11"> COMPARING MORE THAN 100 YEARS OF MILITARY AVIATIO</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, April 2021 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d40cc13c?page=12"> AMERICAN MILITAR FIRST FLIGHTS B-52 ST AP MODE</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, April 2021 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d40cc13c?page=13"> Y AVIATION TOFORTRESS IL 15, 1952 V-22 OSPREY M</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, April 2021 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d40cc13c?page=14"> FEATURE CAF MINNESOTA WING CELEBRATES ITS </a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, April 2021 page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d40cc13c?page=15"> MISS MITCHELL Current Wing members are very proud</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, April 2021 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d40cc13c?page=16"> EXPANDING THE FLEET The Minnesota Wing has take</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, April 2021 page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d40cc13c?page=17"> CAF Minnesota Wing 310 Airport Rd. Hanga</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, April 2021 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d40cc13c?page=18"> FEATURE WILLIAM “BILLY” MITCHELL In 1879, </a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, April 2021 page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d40cc13c?page=19"> PHOTO BY JIM KOEPNICK airpower would mean less m</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, April 2021 page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d40cc13c?page=20"> PROFILES DANIEL “CHAPPIE” JAMES, JR. </a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, April 2021 page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d40cc13c?page=21"> J O I N T H E V I C T O R Y C I R C L E T O D A </a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, April 2021 page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d40cc13c?page=22"> David and Laura Borgen at Omaha Beach during the </a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, April 2021 page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d40cc13c?page=23"> GONE WEST PHOTO BY JIM KOEPNICK ORAL HISTORY PRO</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, April 2021 page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d40cc13c?page=24"> </a>