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.
Aircraft readiness will suffer if Congress does not approve some $1.5 billion worth of spare parts the Air Force requested in its annual Unfunded Priorities List, sent to Capitol Hill last week, Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin said.