US Air Force C-130 tactical airlifters working with US Central Command’s Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa spent two days delivering supplies to people in eastern Ethiopia left homeless by recent flooding. According to an Associated Press news service account, some 217,000 are homeless from flooding that killed at least 80 people.
The Air Force awarded a $13.08 billion contract to the Sierra Nevada Corporation on April 26 for its Survivable Airborne Operations Center aircraft, the successor to the service’s E-4B “Doomsday” plane. Like the E-4B, officially called the National Airborne Operations Center, the SAOC will be meant to withstand a nuclear attack and keep…