Eight separate recognized class records for speed over a closed course (1,000 and 2,000 kilometers) with payload in piston-engine aircraft are set by two different AAF crews flying Boeing B-29A Superfortresses at Dayton, Ohio.
General Atomics has given its Collaborative Combat Aircraft drone, the YFQ-42A, a new nickname in keeping with the Air Force tradition of aircraft named for birds of prey: Dark Merlin.
