US Pacific Air Forces is set to resume Operation Deep Freeze, the Air Force’s resupply mission for the National Science Foundation and US Antarctica operations at McMurdo Station. Aircrews from the New York ANG’s 109th Airlift Wing are on their way to Christchurch, New Zealand, with their unique ski-equipped LC-130.
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…