Air Force Flight Test Center Commander Maj. Gen. Curtis Bedke recently paid his first visit to Arnold Engineering Development Center, Arnold AFS, Tenn., after which he told Shelbyville (Tenn.) Times-Gazette that it delivers “more diverse capability” than he realized. Bedke said, “I knew it as the wind tunnel place.”
An important U.S. Air Force E-3 Sentry AWACS command and control plane was among the aircraft damaged in a March 27 Iranian missile and drone attack on Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, people familiar with the matter told Air & Space Forces Magazine.