Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) addresses budget transparency and whether the Air Force gets its fair share of funding with former Air Force Chief of Staff retired Gen. T. Michael Moseley and the National Defense Industrial Association’s Richard McConn. Held during the Air Force Association’s virtual Air, Space & Cyber Conference, the panel discussion was moderated by retired Lt. Gen. David A. Deptula, dean of AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.
A misaligned vane in an F-16 engine that field-level maintainers cannot see to inspect caused one of the U.S. Air Force's Thunderbird jets to crash last December, a new report concludes. The same problem led another F-16 to crash 20 months earlier.
