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The Air Force has expanded its inspection of C-130 upper-wing joint nuts to include all variants of the aircraft, meaning new J model are now being looked at in addition to older C-130 configurations, a service spokesman confirmed yesterday. Air...

Maj. Gen. Patrick Moisio, an Arizona Air Guardsman, became deputy director of the Air National Guard on March 6. “I look forward to working with Maj. Gen. Moisio,” said Lt. Gen. Bud Wyatt, ANG director, in a release March 6....

Air Force Materiel Command has released a list of five priorities that are meant to complement the Air Force’s overarching goals. In order of priority, they are: reinvigorate AFMC’s role in the nuclear enterprise; implement effective and efficient integrated life...

Catastrophic engine failure caused an F-16C to crash on the flight line of Joint Base Balad, Iraq, Nov. 12, 2008, Air Combat Command announced yesterday. The F-16 was deployed to Balad’s 55th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron from the 20th Fighter Wing, at Shaw AFB, S.C. According to the findings of ACC’s accident investigation board (AIB report), the aircraft was initiating an afterburner takeoff when a second-stage disk fan in the engine failed, causing fan section components to tear through the rest of the engine. Investigation analysis discovered a previously undetected sub-surface crack in the disk, but could not determine the root cause of the crack. The F-16, worth $28.8 million, was destroyed during ground impact and the subsequent fire, but the pilot was able to exit the aircraft safely and sustained no injuries.

Two B-1Bs from the 28th Wing at Ellsworth AFB, S.D., are in Australia this week to participate in the Avalon Airshow near Melbourne. The show starts today and runs through March 15. The flight over of the B-1s caused some...

Fourteen F-22s and their pilots and support personnel from the 3rd Wing at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, headed back home March 3 after spending two weeks at Holloman AFB, N.M. The Elmendorf Raptors came to Holloman on Feb. 17 after participating...

The Air Force Global Logistics Support Center opened Building 1515, its new headquarters building, Feb. 26 at Scott AFB, Ill., during a ribbon cutting ceremony. “The new facility features an open floor plan and a command and control center to...

The 2009-14 strategic plan of the Curtis E. LeMay Center for Doctrine Development and Education at Maxwell AFB, Ala., aims to move the service towards the goal “first imagined in 1997″ of ensuring a direct relationship between doctrine education and...

Engineers at the Arnold Engineering Development Center on the grounds of Arnold AFB, Tenn., last month successfully test fired the 100th rocket motor in the 15-year history of the center’s J-6 large rocket motor test facility. The Feb. 11 test...

Air Sorties in War on Terrorism, Southwest AsiaMar. 5-6, 2009 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 52 38 90 2,572 CAS/Armed Recon 60 133 193 6,480 Airlift 260 260 8,483 Air refueling 85 85 2,997 Total 628 20,532...