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Langley Air Force Base is located in Hampton, Virginia, and is home to the United States Air Force 1st Fighter Wing and the 480th Intelligence Wing. It also hosts Headquarters - Air Combat Command, and the 192nd Fighter Wing (an Air National Guard component of the Virginia National Guard). The base is named for aviation pioneer Samuel Pierpont Langley.
Langley Air Force Base is located in Hampton, Virginia, and is home to the United States Air Force 1st Fighter Wing and the 480th Intelligence Wing. It also hosts Headquarters - Air Combat Command, and the 192nd Fighter Wing (an Air National Guard component of the Virginia National Guard). The base is named for aviation pioneer Samuel Pierpont Langley.
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Md. reservists welcomed home
Sun National StaffFORT LEE, Va. - The field house on this Army base erupted in raucous cheers last night as the soldiers of the 372nd Military Police Company marched in, five abreast, to a brass band playing "God Bless America." The Maryland-based company was at the heart...Tags: Explosions, Prosecution, Emergency Incidents, Prisons, Trials
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'I think we're getting hijacked'
Sun ReporterThey were the first words that presaged a changed America, an America that could no longer think of itself as invulnerable, as beyond the reach of those who hated us. They were spoken by Betty Ong, a flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11, en...Tags: Explosions, Employees, Emergency Incidents, Rome (Italy), Aon PLC
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Trappe resident is 'Wright' pilot for job
Sun StaffA Maryland woman's quest to re-enact the Wright brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C., 100 years later ended victoriously at a Wisconsin air show yesterday where she was named as one of two "Pilots of the Century." For Terry Queijo, an American...Tags: Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills, Transportation, Wilbur Wright, Manassas (Manassas, Virginia)
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Living Here: Performing arts
Dance American Youth Ballet Company. The performing arm of the Eastern Virginia School for the Performing Arts. Village Shops, 1915 Pocahontas Trail, James City County. 757-229-8535. http://www.capafund.org and http://www.evspa.org. Hampton Roads...Tags: Ferguson Center for the Arts, Music Theater, Opera (genre), Christianity, Fine Artists
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Living Here: Science and more
Animals, plants and planets are all covered at area museums. Many of the museums, notably the Air and Space Center and the Virginia Living Museum, have exhibits that kids love. 1. Bluebird Gap Farm. 60-acre nature center with 250 domestic and wild...Tags: Applied Physics, Science, Movies, Space Programs, Gardens and Parks
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Living Here: Colleges and universities
No matter what type of education you're looking for, it's available here in Hampton Roads. Bryant & Stratton College. Hampton. The facility at Peninsula Town Center opened in 2010 with 80 students, with plans to expand as laboratories are opened and a...Tags: Science, Employment, Portsmouth (Portsmouth, Virginia), Gloucester County, Hampton Roads
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Living Here: Poquoson
Poquoson is a short hop from Hampton, Newport News and elsewhere in Hampton Roads, making it a rather secluded bedroom community. The word "poquoson" is used to describe a boundary line between two higher tracts of land. The boundary area contained a...
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Living Here: Military installations
Newcomers will see it right away: Hampton Roads and theU.S. military go hand in hand. Every branch of the service is represented in this corner of southeastern Virginia: Start with the world's largest naval base and the only East Coast home for the...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Richmond (Richmond, Virginia), Hampton Roads, Weaponry
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Warner discusses survey of Raptor pilots
Chatting with reporters this week, Sen. Mark. R. Warner tossed out an eye-opening number. He had just met with Air Force officials about the troubled F-22 Raptor, which flies out of Langley Air Force Base in Hampton. Warner said he was told of a survey...
Tags: Virginia Cavaliers, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia)
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F-22 backup oxygen system upgrade not complete until mid-2014
It will take about two years to finish upgrading the F-22 Raptor fleet with an automatic backup oxygen supply ordered by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta as a hedge against pilots feeling dizzy or disoriented, the Air Force said Thursday. Panetta said this...
Tags: The Pentagon, John Kirby, Leon Panetta, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Military Equipment
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Quick response lauded in York
York-Poquoson Sheriff Danny Diggs has honored a Langley Air Force medic and a York-Poquoson deputy for their quick response that helped saved a man's life following a vehicle crash earlier this month. Diggs awarded Deputy Eric Hart the Sheriff's...Tags: Yorktown (York, Virginia), Grafton, Library of Congress, Transportation Accidents, York (York, Pennsylvania)
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Panetta limits F-22 Raptor flights, orders fixes
Days after two Virginia-based pilots aired concerns about the F-22 Raptor, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has ordered additional safety measures for theU.S. military's most advanced fighter jet. Steps include flight restrictions and installing an...
Tags: Aerospace Manufacturing, NASA, Defense, 60 Minutes (tv program), Leon Panetta
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