The South Carolina Air National Guard is about to reap BRAC 2005 harvest with the Thursday arrival of the first of nine F-16CJ fighters coming from Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, reports The State newspaper. Picking up the additional Vipers will be ANG’s 169th Fighter Wing at McEntire ANGS, S.C., where they will join 18 existing F-16CJs.
Denys Overholser, the Lockheed Martin engineer whose insights on the mathematics of radar cross section led directly to the first operational stealth attack airplane and permanently reshaped combat aircraft design and tactics, died April 28 at the age of 86.