The YB-52 Stratofortress bomber prototype makes its maiden flight from a Boeing facility in Seattle. Company pilot A.M. “Tex” Johnston is at the controls. Seventy-three years later, the aircraft is still flying and projected to stay in service for more than a century.
In written testimony to the Senate, the nominee to oversee the Air Force’s installations and energy enterprise endorsed the continued privatization of military housing and called for the department to think more during the acquisition process about how it will power new weapons systems when the logistics supply chain is…
