Two parachute teams from USAF’s Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape program finished No. 1 and No. 4 in the annual international Leapfest 2007 held recently in Rhode Island. It is the first time an Air Force team has won top honors in the 25-year history of Leapfest, reports SSgt. Connie Bias. The No. 1 team is from the 66th Training Squadron at NAS Pensacola, Fla., and the No. 4 is from the 22nd TS at Fairchild AFB, Wash. Both squadrons are part of the 336th Training Group at Fairchild.
Anduril and General Atomics will develop their Collaborative Combat Aircraft for the Air Force, beating out Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman, the service announced on April 24. But any of the non-selected companies can compete to actually manufacture the eventual design, the Air Force said.