Consider taking in two displays that have just opened at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. “The Winged Angels: US Army Air Forces Flight Nurses in World War II” opened Wednesday in the museum’s Air Power Gallery. It tells the story of the 500 Army flight nurses who served as members of medical air evacuation transport squadrons during the war. “These flight nurses were really part of a revolution in military medical care,” said Terry Aitken, the museum’s senior curator. The second new offering, “The Mexican Air Force,” debuted Feb. 26 in the “Airmen in a World at War” exhibit. It is dedicated to the Mexican airmen of Escuadron 201, the Aztec Eagles, who fought alongside US forces in World War II (Dayton report on flight nurses by Sarah Swan; Dayton report on Aztec Eagles by Bryan D. Carnes) (Museum Web site)
The Air Force and Boeing agreed to a nearly $2.4 billion contract for a new lot of KC-46 aerial tankers on Nov. 21. The deal, announced by the Pentagon, is for 15 new aircraft in Lot 11 at a cost of $2.389 billion—some $159 million per tail.