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 profile on the Website for the safety consulting firm he founded, Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger flew F-4s during seven years on active duty, from 1973 to 1980, when he started with US Airways. Read more in an Associated Press report.
The Space Force should take bold, decisive steps—and soon—to develop the capabilities and architecture needed to support more flexible, dynamic operations in orbit and counter Chinese aggression and technological progress, according to a new report from AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.
