December 1997

Vol. 80, No. 12

Pilots

Here are the statiscal profiles of the men and women who fly USAF’s aircraft and the unfavorable trends USAF now confronts.

Aerospace History at Hill

Local volunteers carefully preserve peices of Air Force history near the shores of the Great Salt Lake at Hill AFB, Utah.

Aerospace World

Suicide Suspected in A-10 Crash In a surprise twist to an unusual tale, the Air Force wrapped up its investigation into the crash of an A-10 aircraft last spring by concluding that the pilot probably caused the accident in an...

Verbatim

Empty Tanks “Most people know the story of the F-111s adapting to the Iraqi tank patterns, being able to find them buried in the sand because of the differentials in heat as the night cooled and the tanks stayed warm....