Officials at Columbus AFB, Miss., must have breathed a sigh of relief that Katrina petered out before reaching the base—bypassing its new state-of-the-art, seven-story tall air traffic control tower. They officially opened the $5.2 million tower last week.
Pratt & Whitney recently received more than $1.2 billion worth of contracts to sustain the F100 engines flown in older-model F-15s and F-16s.
