US Central Command said Thursday that an airman assigned to the 447th Air Expeditionary Group was killed and another airman was wounded when an improvised explosive device blew up during safing operations near Baghdad, Iraq, on March 29. The Pentagon has identified the airman who was killed as TSgt. Walter M. Moss Jr., 37, of Houston. Moss was deployed to Iraq from the 366th Civil Engineer Squadron, Mountain Home, Idaho.
The KC-Z4, a blended wing body tanker concept being developed by startup JetZero, could fuel larger groups of aircraft at longer range to hold more targets at risk, company officials say.