The F-35A strike fighter is cleared to begin initial operations at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., after officials at the Aeronautical Systems Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, issue a military flight release.
A new think tank analysis finds a hypothetical blended-wing body tanker could offer twice as much refueling performance as the KC-46A Pegasus and recommends the Air Force buy scores of them, as the service prepares to evaluate a BWB demonstrator next year and must juggle its future tanker plans with…