The 75th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, an A-10 unit deployed from Moody AFB, Ga., has surpassed 10,000 combat flying hours in a single rotation to Afghanistan. The unit’s commander, Lt. Col. Sam Milam, and Col. Raymond Strasburger, commander of the 455th...
The perils of flying aging aircraft was an issue at last February’s AFA Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Fla., and it remained on the mind of Gen. John Corley, Air Combat Command head, at this year’s event. During his presentation...
Technology moves so fast that the days of big, omnibus upgrades may be over, according to Gen. Don Hoffman, head of Air Force Materiel Command. In an interview Feb. 27 during AFA’s Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Hoffman said that...
Air Force Materiel Command chief Gen. Don Hoffman said during a Feb. 27 interview in Orlando (see above) that he has a team looking at ways that the earliest F-22s—some of which go back to the late 1990s—can have their...
The “beta test” that is training junior non-pilot officers to become unmanned aerial vehicle operators is off to an average start. That’s probably a good thing. Of the 10 captains selected to participate in the first test program, which began...
It is too soon to tell if the city of Valparaiso’s attempts to halt F-35 basing at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida will affect training plans for the Joint Strike Fighter, Gen. Stephen Lorenz said Feb. 27. Under BRAC...
s: The Indiana Air National Guard’s 122nd Fighter Wing at Fort Wayne will replace its F-16s with A-10s over the course of several years, reports News Channel 15. Rep. Mark Souder (R), who announced the news Friday, said the change...
Several Air Force Research Lab personnel received awards during the Black Engineer of the Year Conference in Baltimore, Md., according to a Feb. 25 release. Honored with a career achievement award, Lloyd Reshard is the Chief of Flight Vehicles Integration...
Air Sorties in War on Terrorism, Southwest AsiaFeb. 25-27, 2009 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 79 52 131 2,288 CAS/Armed Recon 83 178 261 5,807 Airlift 413 413 7,441 Air refueling 139 139 2,691 Total 944 18,227...
