The British night fighter aircraft known as the Bristol Beaufighter has found a home at the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. Technicians at the museum restored the aircraft, which first entered service as a day fighter in July 1940 with the Royal Air Force. By September 1940, when Nazi Germany began its blitz attacks on Britain, the night fighter version emerged and eliminated more than half of the Luftwaffe bombers shot down during the blitz. Without a US-made dedicated night fighter, US Army Air Forces night fighter squadrons flew the Beaufighter.
The program executive officers for some of the Air Force’s largest acquisition management organizations are struggling to deal with an exodus of senior talent and experienced civilian staff, three of them told an industry conference.
