Complete Clue List
Across
1. Color associated with the USAF
3. Pilot training base in Mississippi
8. Name of the Bell X-1 that achieved the first supersonic flight
12. Top American WWI ace
18. Support group for alcoholics (abbr.)
19. Famous B-17 that completed 25 missions during WWII
23. Primary care physician (abbr.)
24. Cyberspeak for laughing out loud
25. Junior officer (abbr.)
26. Negative answer to a superior officer (2 wds)
27. A pilot records his flight hours in a ___ book
28. Zodiac sign
29. US intelligence organization (abbr.)
30. Pilots shouldn't look directly into the ___
32. Home of the Sun Devils (abbr.)
33. Neither this ___ that
35. Direction from Miami to Seattle
36. "And so forth" (abbr.)
38. Units measuring the force due to aircraft acceleration (pl.)
39. Petroleum
40. Weather condition pilots avoid
41. F-16 training happens at this base in Phoenix
43. Pilots must learn to take off and ___
44. Land of the free, home of the brave (abbr.)
45. During WWII Germany, Italy, and Japan were the ___ Powers
46. Postal code for state where Albany is the capital
47. Unit measuring the speed of sound
49. "Iffy" (without hyphen)
52. Assistant of 53 Down
56. Military college in Colorado Springs, CO (3 wds)
Down
1. Simple description of the C-5
2. Country in between Canada and Mexico (abbr.)
3. Pilot of first supersonic flight
4. To fall behind
5. One of the Three Stooges
6. Initials of USAF rival
7. Number of engines on a C-130
9. Lass's counterpart
10. High arching shot in tennis
11. Five cents
12. Anchorage, AK Air Force base
13. Mischievious goblin-like creature
14. Instrument landing system (abbr.)
15. Saints and Colts are part of this (abbr.)
16. Nickname of the F-15C
17. Nickname of the F-22
20. Nickname of the P-51
21. Nickname of the C-130
22. Home of 28th Bomb Wing in SD
27. Air Force base in Virginia
31. Home of aerial war game Red Flag (Las Vegas)
34. College at Stillwater, OK (abbr.)
37. Acronym for Continental United States
42. Initials assoc. with Royal Dutch Airlines
44. Branch of service this puzzle is about (abbr.)
45. Abbr. for 56 Across
46. Neither this ___ that
48. Air Combat Command (abbr.)
50. Pilots breathe this through their masks (abbr.)
51. Shortened form of "Operations"
53. Director of Operations (abbr.)
54. Symbol for iron
55. State where Dover AFB is located (abbr.)