Under the Microscope
This week, the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot AFB, N.D., will undergo a nuclear surety inspection to see if its ability to carry out the nuclear weapons mission with its B-52H bombers passes muster. Minot’s KXMC TV news reported Aug...
T-38 Crash Cause Identified
Mechanical failure of a T-38C’s right aileron led to the aircraft’s crash during a training mission April 23 at Columbus AFB, Miss., killing its two pilots, Air Education and Training Command said in a release Aug. 7. The findings of...
Eyeing the Globemaster
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) has reportedly joined the push to have a squadron of eight C-17s stationed at Stewart ANGB in Newburgh, N.Y., to replace the 12 C-5As that currently are assigned to the base’s 105th Airlift Wing. The Mid-Hudson...
Home to Start a New Mission
About 200 members of the New York Air National Guard’s 174th Fighter Wing returned home to Syracuse, N.Y., on Aug. 5, along with 14 of their F-16 fighters, after several months of supporting combat operations in Iraq out of Joint...
Maturing the Boom
The EADS-built aerial refueling boom system that is an integral part of the Northrop Grumman/EADS KC-30 tanker design in the Air Force’s reopened KC-X tanker contest has completed its flight test and validation phase on a surrogate aircraft, Northrop Grumman...
Northern Sighting
The Department of Homeland Security is gearing up to start operating Predator B unmanned aerial vehicles to patrol the US-Canadian border. Canada’s The Windsor Star reported Aug. 8 that “within weeks” these unmanned platforms will begin flights out of the...
Reaping What They’ve Sown
Reaping What They’ve Sown: General Atomics Aeronautical Systems and BAE Systems have joined forces to integrate the sensors on the MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle to create an automated architecture for detecting and identifying ground targets from the platform. The...
Change or Suffer the Consequences
There is a “critical need” for DOD to establish a national security industrial vision to support the needs of warfighters for world-class weapon systems and services in the 21st century, a Defense Science Board task force chaired by former Pentagon...
Disaster Response Drill
Air Force personnel late last month concluded participation in a major training exercise in Honduras. Airmen operating out of Soto Cano AB, Honduras, as part of US Southern Command’s Joint Task Force-Bravo, took part in the annual disaster-response drill sponsored...
Air Sorties From SWA
Air Sorties in War on Terrorism, Southwest AsiaAug. 7, 2008 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 25 16 41 6,894 CAS/Armed Recon 41 72 113 20,269 Airlift 125 125 27,468 Air refueling 65 65 9,832 Total 344 64,463...