C-5 Flies with Synthetic Fuel
A C-5A transport with the Tennessee Air National Guard’s 164th Airlift Wing took to the skies over Memphis earlier this week for the first time running on a synthetic fuel blend in two flight tests meant to clear the C-5...
OSD Nominees Reaffirm Need for New Bomber
President-elect Barack Obama’s nominees for the Pentagon’s No. 2 spot and its top policy post yesterday endorsed the need for a new bomber on Capitol Hill yesterday and said this capability would be a central discussion point in the forthcoming...
From Fighters to River Landing Hero
The pilot of US Airways Flight 1549, who landed the Airbus jet on the Hudson River Thursday, saving the 155 people on board, is a former Air Force fighter pilot and graduate of the Air Force Academy. According to a...
Flight Commence to Darfur
The two C-17s dispatched to Kigali, Rwanda, to transport vehicles and heavy equipment for the African Union-UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan’s Darfur region each conducted their first flights to Darfur Jan. 13. Each C-17 hauled about 30 tons of material....
Civilian Rollout
NASA and the Northrop Grumman yesterday unveiled the first of two RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles that the agency will fit with special instruments for use starting later this year in high-altitude environmental science research. The rollout took place...
Update on NATO AGS
Despite funding hiccups and wavering partner commitments, NATO’s alliance ground surveillance program remains on track to come online in Fiscal 2012, according to alliance officials and Northrop Grumman representatives who are leading the transatlantic industry team developing the capability. The...
Remembering Demon 51
Air Force officials dedicated a memorial Jan. 13 at the Museum of Military History in Jacksonville, Ark., to the six airmen who perished in the crash of an Arkansas Air National Guard C-130 transport during a training flight June 8,...
Space Challenges for Obama Administration
As soon as President-elect Barack Obama is sworn in next week, his Administration will have to make some quick decisions regarding the fate of the space shuttle program and its follow-on, the Constellation space-access initiative, says NASA’s outgoing head. During...
BUFF on the Move
A crew from Kirtland AFB, N.M., last week moved—in a piecemeal fashion—a B-52 bomber that had been storage on the base for the past seven years to the new site of the National Atomic Museum in Albuquerque, where it will...
Air Sorties from SWA
Air Sorties in War on Terrorism, Southwest AsiaJan. 13, 2009 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 29 3 32 482 CAS/Armed Recon 40 37 77 1,302 Airlift 120 120 1,622 Air refueling 45 45 616 Total 274 4,002...