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he National Museum of the US Air Force has put the service’s new stealth fighter, the F-22A Raptor, on display at its facility in Dayton, Ohio. The display aircraft, SN 91-4003, was one of nine engineering, manufacturing, and developing test aircraft and was the first to launch an AIM-120 missile at supersonic speeds. The museum’s restoration team prepared the aircraft for display, painting it to represent an aircraft flown by the first Raptor unit, the 1st Fighter Wing at Langley AFB, Va. Unlike many aviation museums, says director retired Maj. Gen. Charles Metcalf, the USAF museum “not only strives to tell the Air Force stories of the past, but those of the present and future as well.” (Museum report by Rob Bardua)
Active-Duty Airmen only have a few days left to submit an official waist-to-height ratio into the Air Force’s new online application. But the service clarified July 23 that this first body composition measurement is not meant to be scored as part of the new Physical Fitness Readiness Assessment, or PFRA