It was April 19 when the Air Force actually went over the one million mark for sorties supporting the global war on terror, service officials told the Daily Report Tuesday. We reported earlier that the service anticipated hitting that astonishing figure on April 21. Officials would not speculate which particular sortie or which aircraft and crew on April 19 actually broke the one million sortie mark.
F-16s assigned to the New Jersey Air National Guard will live forever in the popular video game Microsoft Flight Simulator, thanks to an audio producer who records aircraft sounds to help make virtual flight as realistic as possible.