Another SAR item notes that the IOC for the Global Broadcast Service satellite system will be nine months late—now set for December 2006. The reason: The need to integrate operational requirements document III changes into the test and evaluation master plan.
More than 20 tankers lined the runway at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan., on March 27, for an “elephant walk” and the base’s largest mass launch of aircraft ever. Sixteen KC-46s and five KC-135s participated in the flush, with aircraft and Airmen from the 22nd Air Refueling Wing and the 931st…