The Air Force’s first female Thunderbird Aerial Demonstration Team pilot, Maj. Nicole Malachowski, has been inducted into the Women in Aviation International’s Pioneer Hall of Fame. Malachowski attended the association’s 19th annual conference last week in San Diego, where she joined Nancy Love, Geraldine Mock, Margaret Ringenberg, and the Women’s Air Transport Auxiliary as new members of the hall of fame. Malachowski has donated one of her Thunderbird show flight suits to the San Diego Air & Space Museum, the site of the conference. (AFPN report by SSgt. Jeremy Larlee) And, speaking of the T-Birds, find their 2008 season schedule here.
Former AFCENT Commander Reflects on Lessons of Epic Fury
Sept. 13, 2026
Operation Epic Fury marked the U.S. military's largest air campaign in a generation, with strikes on 13,000 targets in Iran before the first in a series of shaky ceasefires began in April. Now, even as hostilities continue to flare up, Lt. Gen. Derek C. France sees several clear lessons that…


