According to an MSNBC news report, Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne refused to comply with an order from Defense Secretary Robert Gates to fire Gen. Michael Moseley. Gates directed Wynne to fire Moseley last week, sources told MSNBC. When he refused, Gates asked both Wynne and Moseley to resign. (See below)
Denys Overholser, the Lockheed Martin engineer whose insights on the mathematics of radar cross section led directly to the first operational stealth attack airplane and permanently reshaped combat aircraft design and tactics, died April 28 at the age of 86.