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A massive rescue effort is underway to locate the F-22 pilot missing since his Raptor crashed Tuesday evening in a remote, rugged area about 100 miles north of Anchorage, Alaska, during a nighttime training flight. The aircraft was assigned to...

An F-22 assigned to the 3rd Wing at JB Elmendorf, Alaska, crashed Tuesday evening roughly 100 miles north of Anchorage during a nighttime training mission, according to Elmendorf officials. As of late Wednesday US East Coast time, rescuers said they...

Gen. Edward Rice took the reins of Air Education and Training Command from Gen. Stephen Lorenz Wednesday at Randolph AFB, Tex. Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz presided over the change-of-command ceremony. “What we do here matters a great deal,”...

The Air Force’s first two F-35A low-rate production aircraft will initially head to Edwards AFB, Calif., to support flight testing activities there instead of going directly to Eglin AFB, Fla., to help establish the F-35 schoolhouse. These two airplanes, AF-6...

The Air Force anticipates releasing the list of candidate basing locations for the Light Mobility Aircraft next month, service officials announced Wednesday. Following that will come the list of preferred locations in the first quarter of 2011 and then the...

Air Force KC-135 tankers from RAF Mildenhall, Britain, recently joined C-17s of the multinational Heavy Airlift Wing stationed at Pápa AB, Hungary, in the skies over Germany for the rare opportunity for both to hone vital skills. Boom operators of...

Factors like mission requirements, communications infrastructure, and reserve component recruiting will be key as the Air Force decides which base will host remotely piloted aircraft ground control stations for an Air Force Reserve Command unit. These Reservists will operate MQ-1...

SSgt. Jeremy King, a member of the 320th Special Tactics Squadron at Kadena AB, Japan, is the Air Force’s top combat controller for 2009. The recently promoted sergeant earned the award after a year that saw him supporting combat operations...

The US nuclear industrial base has atrophied to the point that its ability to regenerate, let alone develop, a modern warhead is questionable, asserted Tom Scheber, vice president of the National Institute for Public Policy in Fairfax, Va. “Since the...

Electronic Systems Center officials at Hanscom AFB, Mass., this month expect to release a planning and management tool called EMPIRE-A that will support personnel overseeing overhead intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance assets in a theater. It will provide a more complete view of the...

Britain’s Royal Air Force has taken delivery of its seventh C-17 transport from manufacturer Boeing, the company announced. This is the last C-17 that the RAF has ordered at this time. “The addition of a seventh C-17 to our fleet...

Air Sorties in Southwest Asia, Nov. 12, 2010 Sortie Type OND OEF OND/OEF Total YTD ISR 23 74 97 24,096 CAS/Armed Recon 12 82 94 31,012 Airlift 191 191 54,986 Air refueling 52 52 15,361 Rescue 28 28 7,169 Total...