Victims of T-39 Crash Identified: Among the four people killed in the Jan. 11 crash of a US Navy T-39 was Air Force 1st Lt. Jason W. Davis, 28, of Vista, Calif., who was in navigator training at NAS Pensacola, Fla. The other victims, according to a Navy statement, were Navy Lt. Jason S. Manse, 30, of Canton, Ohio; Navy Ensign Elizabeth Bonn, 23, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; and retired Navy Cmdr. Dave Roark, 68, who was a contract pilot.
Australia’s military will help the Pentagon pursue so-called “air-breathing” hypersonic weapons and more under the U.S.-run Allied Prototyping Initiative, the U.S. Defense Department said Nov. 30. The Southern Cross Integrated Flight Research Experiment (SCIFiRE) initiative “will be essential to the future of hypersonic research and development, ensuring the U.S. and…