The Air Force’s pilot production numbers stayed relatively steady from fiscal 2019 to 2020 despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. said, an encouraging sign that the service’s efforts to speed up that pipeline are working. That progress could be ...
Helicopter Training Next
For the first time in more than a quarter century, Air Force pilots have earned their wings from a helicopter-only training course. “Today, you’ve established a new helicopter-only training,” Lt. Gen. Marshall B. "Brad" Webb, commander of AETC, told the new pilots at their graduation ...
The commander of 19th Air Force will be hitting the road in the coming months, explaining to nearly every USAF flying unit how pilot training is changing, and why they should accept it, Maj. Gen. Craig D. Wills told reporters March 23. The new systems ...