About 40 loggies and operators are gathering next week in Oklahoma for a two-day bomber summit to discuss the health of the bomber fleet, its sustainability, capability upgrades, and modernization efforts, as well as field-level maintenance and operations issues. The...
Gen. Arthur Lichte, head of Air Mobility Command, gave an upbeat assessment of the new Chief of Staff, Gen. Norton Schwartz, when asked Wednesday his take on the Air Force’s new leadership. “I think you’ll find him to be a...
As the Air Force’s mobility fleet inches up in age with every passing day, new demands are making the need for recapitalization even more stark, Gen. Arthur Lichte, Air Mobility Command boss, told defense reporters Sept. 3 in Washington, D.C....
The KC-135Es still flying will all be parked on the ramp by the end of the year, but, as with those already grounded, they won’t be fully retired, said Gen. Arthur Lichte, head of Air Mobility Command, Sept. 3. (See...
Air Mobility Command yesterday stood up the 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing at Ramstein AB, Germany, to manage the command’s booming war-zone transit operation in Europe. The new wing will become the headquarters for the existing 721st Air Mobility Operations...
The Air Force has begun moving aircraft from bases along the southeastern US coast that may be in the path of Tropical Storm Hanna. For example, approximately 80 F-15Es of the 4th Fighter Wing were expected to depart Seymour Johnson...
Officials with the 76th Propulsion Maintenance Group at the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center at Tinker AFB, Okla., are working toward the start of depot work on the F117 engine, the Pratt & Whitney powerplant for the quad-engined C-17 transport,...
A federal jury on Wednesday convicted J. Reece Roth, a retired University of Tennessee professor, on 18 counts of conspiracy, fraud, and violating the Arms Export Control Act for the unlawful transfer of sensitive data to foreign nationals from 2004...
The Air Force planned to employ a C-17 from McChord AFB, Wash., to deliver passengers and cargo yesterday to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, thereby kicking off Operation Deep Freeze 2008-09, the US military’s support for US scientific research activities on the...