Airmen of the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing gathered with coalition forces and members of the other US services at sunrise yesterday on the grounds of the newly constructed 9/11 memorial at an air base in Southwest Asia for a remembrance...

For the first time in five years, the Air National Guard has met its end strength goal for the fiscal year, reaching the desired level of 106,700 enlisted personnel and officers based on its August recruiting numbers, according to National...

Nine Air National Guard C-130 transports from four states (Delaware, New York, North Carolina, and Texas) began transporting special-needs patients from Corpus Christi, Tex., Sept. 10 to move them out of the projected path of Hurricane Ike that is expected...

Boeing has completed a 15-month phase of mission system flight testing for the E-3 AWACS Block 40/45 upgrade program aboard a test aircraft, the company announced Sept. 10. Completion of the tests finishes the program’s system design and development phase,...

The Air Force needs to build the 2018 bomber if only to stanch a dwindling target-hitting capacity as the service’s strike force ages out and too few replacements come along, a Northrop Grumman analyst said Wednesday. Michael Isherwood, a former...

The nation needs about three times the number of Global Hawk reconnaissance platforms as the Air Force plans, according to Northrop Grumman, maker of the high-altitude unmanned aircraft. Michael Isherwood, a Northrop analyst, said at a National Press Club briefing...

The Air Mobility Battlelab is recommending that Air Mobility Command adopt a new cooling “sock” for the KC-135 fleet as a means of keeping the aircraft’s flight deck cool when the tankers are parked in hot climates. “Cooling the cockpit...

A C-17 transport carrying a two-person medical team successfully evacuated a 56-year-old man assigned to the National Science Foundation in Antarctica from the barren continent on Sept. 10 and brought him to Christchurch, New Zealand for treatment in a hospital....

An MH-53 Pave Low helicopter from the 20th Special Operations Squadron at Hurlburt Field, Fla., made its final flight Sept. 5, landing outside the Air Force Armament Museum near Eglin Air Force Base, its final resting place. The aircraft, tail...

Sept. 10, 2008 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 29 17 46 CAS/Armed Recon 51 74 125 Airlift 134 134 Air refueling 59 59 Total 364 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance Airlift includes Horn of Africa data