The operational training concept for Air Force and international F-35 fighters at Luke AFB, Ariz. will be different than the concept now in place there with the F-16, said Air Force, Lockheed Martin, and F-35 System Program office officials. Today,...
A widely-reported RAND study that concluded joint fighter programs—including the F-35—never deliver promised joint-use savings was based on cost data now more than three years old. RAND used selective acquisition report numbers derived in 2010 by the Pentagon’s Cost Assessment...
As the US draws back its military support for Afghanistan operations, Air Force leadership is trying to find a way to balance increased demands for engagement across US Pacific Command from Australia to Thailand, PACAF Commander Gen. Hawk Carlisle told...
William Overstreet Jr., a World War II fighter pilot who in 1944 famously flew his P-51C Mustang through the arches of the Eiffel Tower while in pursuit of a German Messerschmitt Bf 109G aircraft, died at a hospital in Roanoke,...
Tyndall AFB, Fla., is ramping up maintenance assets to receive additional F-22 Raptors that will transfer from Holloman AFB, N.M., over the next few months, base officials announced. More than $65 million in tools and F-22 support equipment is pouring...
Sean O’Keefe will step down as Airbus Group, Inc., chief executive officer on March 1 so he can “fully address ongoing medical issues that remain from injuries he suffered in a 2010 aircraft accident that took the life of former...
The Air Force will convene an enhanced selective early retirement board at JBSA-Randolph, Tex., on June 16 as part of its ongoing force shaping efforts. The board, a new authority granted in the Fiscal 2013 National Defense Authorization Act, will...
Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force James Cody recently visited his former home station of Pease ANGB, N.H., to meet with Air National Guardsmen of the 157th Air Refueling Wing. Accompanied by his wife, retired CMSgt. Athena Cody, they...
Eight maintainers from the 455th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, received certificates of appreciation and small gifts from the Polish Air Force after assisting a Polish C-130 aircrew with a leaky propeller. Col. Andrzej Kusnierek, the International...
