The fatal 2016 U-2 crash in California was caused by the aircraft entering an unintentional secondary stall, forcing the two pilots to eject. Instructor pilot Lt. Col. Ira S. Eadie was killed during the ejection sequence, and the second pilot...
A B-52 pilot aborting takeoff, along with a drag chute failure, caused the May 2016 mishap that destroyed the Stratofortress at Andersen AFB, Guam, the Air Force announced Wednesday. At 8:32 a.m. on May 16, 2016, a B-52 assigned to...
Russian Tu-95 Bear bombers, for the second time in as many days, flew close to the Alaska shore prompting an Air Force response. The bombers, which were spotted about 41 miles off the coast of Alaska on Tuesday, prompted an...
During the most recent Deep Freeze C-17 airlift season—which ran from ?Sept. 28, 2016 to March 28, 2017—?airmen ferried nearly 3,000 passengers into the Antarctic supporting the National Science Foundation. Airmen with the Reserve 446th Airlift Wing and the 62nd...
An Iraqi Security Forces unit, with US and Australian advisers, was hit with an ISIS chemical attack in Western Mosul over the weekend, though the attack had “no impact” on the forces, according to the US-led coalition. US Army Maj....
Reserve airmen with the 302nd Airlift Wing departed Wednesday on a five-day training exercise at the Idaho Air National Guard’s Gowen Field in Boise, Idaho. The training will focus on using the C-130 Modular Airborne Firefighting System, or MAFFS. “The...
The Air Force Association announced the winners of the national high school space challenge StellarXplorers III, held earlier this month in Colorado Springs, Colo. The “Sky Dragons” team from San Pedro High School in San Pedro, Calif., is this year’s...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V successfully shot Orbital ATK’s Cygnus, with more than 7,600 pounds of supplies and working experiments, to the International Space Station on Tuesday. Airmen with USAF’s 45th Space Wing supported the mission. “This mission once...