Yet another trumped-up charge against the Air Force and the F-22 from the Washington Post has been exposed as a pure fabrication. The Post, in its influential—and largely inaccurate—July 10 hatchet job on the Raptor, quoted “several sources” as saying...
The F-22 that crashed during a flight test on March 25 was working well when the pilot temporarily lost situational awareness due to high G-loading, accident investigation board president Maj. Gen. David Eidsaune said in an interview with Air Force...
The Air Force wants to find a fixed-wing light attack/armed reconnaissance (LAAR) aircraft that it can field beginning in Fiscal 2012. Aeronautical Systems Center at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, issued a capability request for information last week to “explore cost effective...
On the same day that it issued the Light Attack/Armed Reconnaissance aircraft capability query (see above), Aeronautical Systems Center in Ohio issued another seeking information on a fixed-wing Light Mobility Aircraft (LiMA) that USAF also would like to field starting...
That’s the message that Lt. Gen. Harry Wyatt, director of the Air National Guard, said he is conveying to the powers that be during the Pentagon’s current Quadrennial Defense Review, its overarching study of warfighting strategy. “We think a lot...
Lt. Gen. Harry Wyatt, Air National Guard director, said last week he “can’t wholeheartedly endorse” the plan put forward by Adjutant Generals in the states of California, Oregon, Louisiana, Florida, and Massachusetts to acquire F-22s for their respective Air National...
The Senate has confirmed the two Air Force lieutenant generals who will each receive a fourth star when they take the helms of Pacific Air Forces and Air Mobility Command—Lt. Gen. Gary North and Lt. Gen. Raymond Johns Jr., respectively....
USAF Gen. Kevin Chilton believes the US has “lost a generation of thought” because few military members or civilian employees who joined the defense cadre after 1992 “have been challenged with the imperative to be versant in the art of...
NATO has appointed French Air Force Gen. Stephane Abrial to serve as Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, leading Allied Command Transformation in Norfolk, Va. The position, since the command’s creation in 2002, has been held by the US flag or general...
The remains of CMSgt. John Quincy Adam, whose C-130 went down May 22, 1968, on a mission over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Vietnam, were buried in his hometown of Kansas City, Kan., July 27, 2009. Adam, an airman...
Air Sorties in War on Terrorism, Southwest AsiaJuly 29, 2009 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 9 25 34 8,815 CAS/Armed Recon 0 83 83 20,039 Airlift 35 35 27,244 Air refueling 47 47 9,687 Total 199 65,785...
