Gary Hogg, a former Air Force lieutenant colonel and current test pilot at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., recently eclipsed 10,000 hours flying the C-130, equivalent to about 416 days, spread across a 41-year career.
Air Force installations across Florida hunkered down for Hurricane Helene on Sept. 26, closing many on-base services and only allowing mission-essential personnel on base. The storm, which is expected to make landfall as a Category 4 hurricane, is also impacting the first-ever launch of a Space ...
An Air Force veteran and former civilian employee was indicted this week for leaking classified information on USAF aircraft and weapons. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Florida announced the grand jury indictment of Paul J. Freeman on June 27, after Freeman had been ...
Three F-16 fighters landed at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., on April 1. Soon enough, they'll be modified and flying again to test autonomous technologies key to Collaborative Combat Aircraft and other key programs, the Air Force said April 2.
Pilots from the Oregon Air National Guard are giving the new F-15EX rave reviews after becoming the first members of the unit to fly the aircraft at a training course in Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. earlier this month.
The Air Force’s new trainer jet, the T-7A Red Hawk, notched another milestone in the test process when it completed a month-long extreme weather trial at the McKinley Climatic Lab at Eglin Air Force Bas, Fla. on Feb. 23.
The Air Force and BETA Technologies finished a three-month stint of flight testing with its “Alia” electric aircraft at Duke Field, Fla., the contractor announced Jan. 29—which included several milestones for electric aviation within the Department of Defense.
The Air Force is moving toward Initial Operating Capability with the F-15EX, as the third and fourth examples of the fighter joined the test fleet at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.
A team of 23 Airmen from Hurlburt Field, Fla. traveled to the McKinley Climatic Laboratory at Eglin Air Force Base to test themselves in Arctic conditions without leaving Florida.
Pilots at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., are testing out a new cockpit layout for the C-130H transport plane that will replace its analog gauges with glass multifunction displays and a range of digital upgrades.
The F-15EX shot one JASSM during a recent exercise, bringing to a close the first phase of its hybrid/combined initial operational and developmental test effort. New aircraft are to be delivered in the coming weeks, and a full-rate production decision is expected soon after.
The F-15EX has demonstrated it can fire AIM-120 radar and AIM-9X heat-seeking missiles from new underwing stations, showing the new fighter's ability to carry and fire more missiles than its predecessor, the F-15C, the Air Force reported.