A KC-10 Extender refuels an F-35A from the 461st Flight Test Squadron while a B-2 stealth bomber and three F-16s wait their turn during a recent training mission. The planes were on various test missions when they all flocked to the KC-10 to refuel in midair via the tanker’s boom. Photo by Christian Turner/Air Force.
The Air Force is on track to reach its annual goal of graduating 1,500 new pilots that had proved elusive to this point, one year after the service launched a sweeping overhaul of its undergraduate pilot training program, Air Education and Training Command said Sept. 14.
