The Pentagon had some heavy-hitting aircraft in Britain this week at the Farnborough International Air Show. Setting the pace was a USAF B-1B bomber, which thundered over the show at an altitude of 500 feet three times per day. The B-1B belongs to the Air Force 20th Bomb Squadron, located at Dyess AFB, Tex. Also on hand were the Air Force’s F-15C, F-15E, and F-16C fighters, C-17A airlifter, and C-130J transport. The show ends this weekend.
Lt. Gen. Stephen L. Davis, the Department of the Air Force’s top internal watchdog, has been nominated to lead Air Force Global Strike Command, which oversees the service’s bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles.