As an A-10 squadron commander in the Air Force, I was required to be ready to deploy my 24 Warthogs and team anywhere in the world within 24 hours, including the Korean Peninsula.
If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight line into the heavens and do so with uniform motion, provided that the resistance of the air were removed.
The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.
In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.
There are systems called zero discharge emission systems that would prevent any pollution from making it into the water or the air.
The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion.
Is there anything about cyberspace that particularly screams Air Force? Not really. If cyber warfare is going to be as all-encompassing as it's made out to be by its vigorous proponents, then it will disseminate throughout the services even more than the drone phenomenon has.
The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.
Turner - whether on canvas or paper - can create almost measurable distances of space and air - air that you can draw, in which you can work out what the section through it would be. The space he creates is not emptiness; it is filled with 'solid' atmosphere.
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
We're still in the ditch, and the Gennifer Flowers story about Bill Clinton says it all. A tabloid fired several bullets into the air, and the rest of the herd began to stampede.
Because the Vikings never documented anything - they couldn't read or write - the history is always gonna be a little up in the air.
Too many members of Congress seem willing to give corporate polluters, many of whom happen to be major political donors, a free pass to poison the air.
So many dot-com companies were formulated on air.
When cars honk and hoot and drunks squeeze out of car windows and scream, you can be sure that football is in the air.
I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and several air crash.
