Using two specially configured F-22s during the latest Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment, the Air Force demonstrated it could transfer real-time sensor data acquired by the new fighters to ground stations at JEFX central at Nellis AFB, Nev., and Langley AFB,...
According to a May 6 report by Reuters news service, Boeing expects to win the combat search and rescue helicopter replacement program for the second time not only because it had the best proposal the first time around, but because...
The “serene indifference” shown by the public and the 2008 Presidential candidates to the fate of US airpower has “an expiration date,” declares Air Force Magazine Editor in Chief Robert S. Dudney in his latest editorial. He points out that...
A May 6 Air Force news release declares that the number of combat air patrols conducted by its MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicles has doubled in one year, besting a Pentagon goal by some two years. An earlier report by...
Arnold Engineering Development Center officials in Tennessee estimate that a collaborative effort among its engineers, the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center, and engine-maker Pratt & Whitney has saved about $7.2 million on the first test in a series to verify...
F-16s of Pacific Air Forces’ 8th Fighter Wing at Kunsan AB, South Korea, flew alongside F-15K fighters of the Republic of Korea Air Force for the first time during a Buddy Wing exercise recently. The US and South Korean airmen...
The Air Force hosts the Expeditionary Theater Distribution Center in Southwest Asia, maintaining and dispensing protective gear for about 75 percent of the airmen that deploy to the region, according to a May 2 release from the 379th Air Expeditionary...
The Space and Missile Systems Center at Los Angeles AFB, Calif., has activated the GPS Advanced Control Squadron, which will oversee the acquisition and development of systems, tools, and training for the Global Positioning System satellite advanced ground control segment,...
That is the feeling one of the latest 3,000-hour F-16 veterans has about his aircraft. Lt. Col. Sam Shaneyfelt, commander of the 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron at Eglin AFB, Fla., recently became the 139th Air Force pilot to surpass...
Lt. Col. Travis Willis, an F-15E weapon systems officer deployed to Bagram AB, Afghanistan, has surpassed 1,000 combat flying hours and 335 combat missions. Willis flew his first combat sortie as a first lieutenant during Operation Desert Storm in Iraq...
Air Sorties in War on Terrorism, Southwest AsiaMay 4, 2008 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 20 12 32 3,591 CAS/Armed Recon 68 35 103 10,868 Airlift 142 142 15,959 Air refueling 53 53 5,026 Total 330 35,444...
