Air Force Lt. Col. James Kromberg on Wednesday became the first USAF and non-contractor pilot to fly the F-35. Kromberg, director of operations with the 461st Flight Test Squadron at Edwards AFB, Calif., flew aircraft AA-1, the first F-35 test...

Air Mobility Command will station two C-17s at Ramstein AB, Germany, for four-month stints for the foreseeable future. The rotational deployment will give US Air Forces in Europe the capacity to move cargo more quickly into places like Africa, which...

An F-16 crashed during takeoff in July 2007 at Balad AB, Iraq, due to an underinflated nose gear tire and the pilot’s misinterpretation of the situation, Pacific Air Forces announced on Jan. 30, citing the findings of the accident investigation...

Rivals Boeing and Northrop Grumman-EADS team continue to keep the world well apprised of their accomplishments in the realm of aerial refueling as they, like we, count the seconds down until the Air Force announces the winner of the KC-X...

The Air Force plans to test the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, its 30,000–pound, next-generation bunker buster, from the B-52 bomber later this year or in Fiscal 2009, says a USAF spokesman. Maj. David Small tells the Daily Report that these flight...

Pacific Air Forces boss Gen. Howie Chandler led the redesignation ceremony, transforming 7th Air Force into 7th Air Force, Air Forces Korea, part of the Air Force initiative to establish warfighting components to support specific combatant commanders. Lt. Gen. Stephen...

The Air Force has begun to examine technologies and capabilities that it wants in the platform that will eventually replace it MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle, says a top service acquisition official. Air Combat Command currently is shaping the parameters...

The Air Force is interested in adding a wide-area surveillance sensor to its Predator unmanned aerial vehicles and is pursuing the capability under a nascent Air Force Research Lab initiative, according to a senior USAF official. Martha Evans, director for...

USAF is moving ahead with efforts to integrate the Airborne Signals Intelligence Payload on its Global Hawk and Predator unmanned aerial vehicles, says a senior Air Force weapons buyer. The Sigint package has already flown on the U-2 and its...

MSgt. Michael Garrison with the Space and Missile Systems Center in Los Angeles has received an Airman’s Medal for saving the unconscious driver of a car and others potentially in the car’s path as it rolled down the street toward...

The Massachusetts Air National Guardsmen of the 102nd Fighter Wing flew their final F-15 mission last week and now will become the 102nd Intelligence Wing, courtesy of BRAC 2005. A ceremonial alert sortie sent two F-15s aloft, witnessed by wing...

SSgt. Roberto Short at Dyess AFB, Tex., has received a Bronze Star medal for “intelligence actions in Iraq.” • Prospective Air Force officers now undergo unarmed combat skills training as part of their Officer Training School curriculum, which includes more...

Jan. 29, 2008 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 22 5 27 730 CAS/Armed Recon 49 41 90 2,426 Airlift 146 146 3,565 Air refueling 42 42 1,139 Total 71 46 188 305 7,860 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation...