Airmen of the New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing appeared on NBC’s “Today Show” yesterday, as the Today crew broadcast from the Arctic. The Times Union reports that the Air Guardsmen were part of a three-minute segment “From Pole to Pole,” in which host Matt Lauer talked about the unit, which is performing its annual Operation Deep Freeze mission with its ski-equipped LC-130s. (Currently there’s a video about the unit on the MSNBC page under “Ends of the Earth.”
The first flight of the secretive B-21 bomber has slipped to mid-2022, but the program is moving along well, Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office director Randall Walden said in an exclusive interview. The second copy of the B-21, which will be used for structural testing, is now on the production…