The Air National Guardsman who heads up the Air Expeditionary Group for Cooperative Cope Thunder (to become a Red Flag-Alaska exercise), Col. Greg Nelson, took the opportunity to meet with senior airmen from Japan and South Korea, who are participating in this multinational exercise. The visiting airmen extolled the wide-open training space offered by Alaska and the chance to train with allies.
B-21 Raider First Flight Now Postponed to 2023
May 20, 2022
The Air Force says the B-21 Raider won't make its first flight until 2023; about a six-month delay from the last official estimates. No reason was given for the delay. While other programs have recently chalked up schedule slips to supply chain and labor shortages, the Air Force has said…