Aircraft maintainers at Edwards AFB, Calif., volunteered to restore a historic aircraft for the base’s Air Force Flight Text Center museum. Airmen from the 412th Equipment Maintenance Squadron and the 31st Test and Evaluation Squadron worked weekends and nights for three months to fix up an F-106 Delta Dart, first extricating it from about eight inches of asphalt. They restored it to its appearance when it flew with the 329th Fighter Interceptor Squadron at George AFB, Calif. Eventually, it will join other historic 100-series aircraft at the base’s west gate.
The Air Force wants more companies able to produce its new, multi-use, anti-radar missile that one expert says will prove vital in any future peer conflict and would be in high demand for the war in Iran if stocks were available now.