The Air Force and NASA decided to formalize their long-time working relationship surrounding all things aeronautical by signing an official memorandum of understanding for a research partnership. At a Pentagon ceremony Monday, NASA chief, Michael Griffin, noted that the arrangement...

Two C-130 Hercules aircraft from the California Air National Guard are helping to fight fires in Idaho for the next month, reports Associated Press news service. The Air Guardsmen and their airlifters fitted out with special tanks to dispense foam...

The lone Air Force Reserve Command recruiter working to fill some 1,400 slots to re-establish the 440th Airlift Wing from Milwaukee to Pope Air Force Base (soon to be Pope Army Airfield) in North Carolina is still shy a few...

Air Force Research Lab scientists have finished wind tunnel testing of an “adaptive compliant wing,” a flexible wing that can change shape during flight. Next up for the technology being developed by Michigan-based FlexSys, Inc. is a flight test this...

An Air Combat Command accident investigation board found that the bearing assembly of the No. 4 engine on an F-16 that crashed in Utah last March failed, leading to a compressor stall, vibrations, and loss of thrust. The pilot ejected...

The Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Michael Mullen, observed at last week’s rollout of the Navy’s new EF-18G Growler, based on the F/A-18 E/F airframe, that the program is under budget and ahead of schedule. In fact, says program manager...

Maj. Gen. William Holland, deputy combined force air component commander for US Central Command, says airmen at Manas AB, Kyrgyzstan, have made a bare facility something “absolutely phenomenal.” Holland has reason to know since he lead the 2001 team searching for bases before the US launched Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. Holland told the Ganci Gazette, “That’s the beauty of our Air Force,” explaining that airmen even in a deployed environment “try to make it a little bit better.”

The Air Force Weather Agency just introduced the newest fine-scale computer-forecasting program, the first to be developed in almost a decade. Called the weather research and forecasting model, or WRF, the system is more accurate and efficient than previous models...

The inaugural Air Force Week underway in the St. Louis metro area has activities planned through Aug. 13. Gen. Norton Schwartz, commander of US Transportation Command, CMSAF Rodney McKinley, and A1C Rebecca Blascak, with the 375th Airlift Wing at Scott...

The latest Gallup Poll reveals that an overwhelming portion of Americans believe the war in Iraq should take top priority for the President and Congress. Conducted July 24-27, the survey shows that 48 percent cite Iraq as the most critical...

According to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, more Democratic Americans (54 percent) are likely to oppose a candidate for Congress if he or she supports the Bush Administration’s Iraq policy. On the other hand, the survey showed that Republicans—by...

The long-awaited Air Force Memorial, overlooking the Pentagon, is becoming reality, with the first of three gleaming steel spires completed Aug. 7. The first spire, at 201 feet, is the shortest. The tallest will reach 270 feet. Air Force Memorial...

Thanks to a new cost-sharing agreement between DOD and Veterans Affairs, more than 100,000 military retirees with VA-rated disabilities should soon see retroactive payments based on the new programs (Combat-Related Special Compensation and Concurrent Retirement and Disability Pay) Congress created...

Aug. 7, 2006 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 13 9 22 CAS/Armed Recon 42 23 65 Airlift 160 160 Air refueling 41 41 Total 55 32 201 288 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance