February 2013

USAF must preserve readiness, keep modernization on track, and retain top-notch airmen as funds declin

Air Force Global Strike Command’s bombers and missile forces are at an increasing level of readiness.

The Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group runs a warehouse, not a graveyard.

Money will come from somewhere, but Air Force leaders hope budget cutters don’t create a hollow force.

The Atlantic alliance is as important as ever, but the US will face new challenges in getting its part

Military aircrews are mastering the art of treating injured troops on the move.

The crash reports were a sobering litany of human error and design problems that are unthinkable by to

In the Spanish Civil War, the Luftwaffe practiced for World War II.

The first US pilots in Korea had to learn on the job, in the toughest possible way.

With control of the skies, the Army Air Forces relentlessly pounded the Germans.

New Pentagon boss; Fiscal follies; Leon’s legacy ....

Clarke Takes Over Air Guard The Senate confirmed Lt. Gen. Stanley E. Clarke III as the new director of the Air National Guard, to succeed Lt. Gen. Harry M. Wyatt III early this year. Clarke has commanded Continental US NORAD...

No Fun, Part I “Let’s not even pretend we’re going to get a Secretary [of Defense] who can keep the force from going hollow. For the next couple of years, this job just isn’t going to be a lot of...

“Comparison of Airships and Flyers” Wilbur Wright Letter to Isidor Loewe in Berlin Dayton, Ohio July 19, 1907 FULL TEXT VERSION More than three years after Kitty Hawk, the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, had still failed to market their...

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Sniveling, Immature Whiners [“Editorial: Walking on a Cliff,” December, p. 4] should be mandatory reading for every member of our “moaning-groaning” legislative and executive branches to inspire them to quit the argumentative partisan attitude and get this matter resolved in...

How To Make a Big Splash When Howard L. Burke of the Red Tail Memorial Chapter in Florida received his Air Force Association Medal of Merit, he garnered prominent coverage—both for himself and for AFA. The local Star-Banner daily newspaper...