Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley plans to reveal his choice of a name for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter by June 30, according to the Dallas Morning News. Yet, Richard Whittle reports, that the name may not see light of day until early July, when Lockheed Martin is trying to arrange for President Bush to visit the company’s Fort Worth production facility. According to Whittle, the favored name is Lightning II, after the P-38 Lightning of World War II fame.
Deliveries of Boeing’s troubled KC-46A Pegasus tanker to the U.S. Air Force have restarted after a roughly three-month pause, the aerospace giant announced. Two KC-46s were delivered to Travis Air Force Base, Calif., May 16, after a pause due to cracks in multiple brand-new aircraft that led the USAF to…