The first five African American pilots graduate from training at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama. By the end of the war, the Tuskegee Airmen would include 950 pilots and open the door to the armed forces for other African Americans.
A misaligned vane in an F-16 engine’s “blind spot” that field-level maintainers can’t inspect caused a U.S. Air Force Thunderbird to crash last December, according to a new report—the same issue that led to another F-16 crash 20 months earlier.
