A pilot of the famed World War II Tuskegee Airmen, Lee Roy Kirksey of Charlotte, N.C., died April 4, according to an April 16 report in the Charlotte Observer. He was 86.
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…