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.
When the Air Force sets a new program baseline for the B-52 re-engining this fall, there will be “some” cost increase, because the project wasn't previously fully funded, and the Air Force has a better handle on actual supplier costs and knowledge from ground testing, program officials said.