A T-38 with two aircrew on board landed with its landing gear retracted on Monday at JBSA-Randolph, Tex., announced base officials. The incident happened on Randolph’s east runway at approximately 10:30 a.m. local time, according to the base’s July 29 release. Both pilots were uninjured. The aircraft was assigned to the 12th Flying Training Wing. The incident is under investigation. It came less than two weeks after the crash of a T-38 near Sheppard AFB, Tex.
The Air Force and Boeing agreed to a nearly $2.4 billion contract for a new lot of KC-46 aerial tankers on Nov. 21. The deal, announced by the Pentagon, is for 15 new aircraft in Lot 11 at a cost of $2.389 billion—some $159 million per tail.