September 2009

The Air Force’s F-22 fighter finally goes down for the count.

Out on the frontiers of aerospace, next generation technologies are coming into view.

This F-22 superfighter, few in number, will quarterback the war for the combat air force.

USAF maintainers work daily miracles keeping those old airplanes flying. It can’t last.

AFSOC’s CV-22 promises unmatched speed and range.

When America declared war in 1917, it had no combat airplanes and not a single squadron trained for wa

Air Force Magazine’s annual pictorial directory of Air Force leadership.

At this airport in 1909, Wilbur Wright taught the first two military pilots to solo.

These are the 12 all-stars of the enlisted force in 2009.

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The QDR tackles two wars; Taiwan in the crosshairs; Industrial base extinction? ....

The Air National Guard, principal defender of US air space, flies a geriatric collection of F-15s and F-16s. The fighters are so aged that most of them will be scrapped within a relatively few years. Single-engine F-16s on the verge...

Two Airmen Die in F-15E Crash Capt. Thomas J. Gramith, 27, of Eagan, Minn., and Capt. Mark R. McDowell, 26, of Colorado Springs, Colo., died July 18 when their F-15E Strike Eagle fighter crashed while conducting coalition operations in eastern...

Are the Thinkers Thinking “Some of the concerns I had 20 years ago still loom large. First, are our professional military education schools creating the strategic thinkers we need? And second, are the services identifying strategic thinkers, and are these...

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Evaluating the Threat In July’s editorial [“The Strategy’s Last Stand?” p. 2], you presented a long-needed, cogent statement on strategy. In today’s political climate, it appears that it is not only the politicians who demonstrate that their only concern is...

Three-in-One Expo in Ohio Air Force Association Chairman of the Board Joseph E. Sutter attended the inaugural US Air, Trade, and Technology Expo in Dayton, Ohio, in July. AFA Ohio—led by State President John W. McCance of the Wright Memorial...