Ten Airmen received the Distinguished Flying Cross on Nov. 1, including the crew of the C-17 that flew a record-breaking 823 people to safety during the noncombatant evacuation out of Afghanistan last August. Every member of that famous C-17 flight, call sign REACH 871, received ...
A KC-46 tanker at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan., flew without a co-pilot Oct. 25, part of Air Mobility Command's push to study limited aircrew operations. Two flights took place with just a pilot and a boom operator, the 22nd Air Refueling Wing announced in ...
Lockheed Martin says it is still pitching its LMXT tanker to the Air Force amid a looming requirements announcement for the KC-Y tanker program. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall has cast doubt on whether a KC-Y program would field a wholly new aircraft and has ...
Nearly 100 Airmen will receive Distinguished Flying Crosses and a dozen more will get Bronze Star Medals for their actions in Operation Allies Refuge, the noncombatant evacuation out of Kabul, Afghanistan, in the summer of 2021 that garnered worldwide attention. Additionally, the 621st Contingency Response ...
A pair of KC-135s from Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., continuously operated for 72 hours, landing only to swap crews, refuel, and service engine oil while keeping at least one engine running at all times. The mission, which took place from Oct. 4 to 7 ...
The troubled KC-46 Pegasus tanker faced yet another setback when the Air Force said the new Remote Vision System (RVS) 2.0, which will be used to operate the airplane's refueling boom, will not be available until October 2025. That is a further 19-month delay from ...
Commander of Air Mobility Command Gen. Mike Minihan delivered a keynote address on “The Mobility Manifesto” at AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference. Watch the video or read the transcript below.
With an ambitious goal of being ready to fight inside the Pacific’s first island chain by August 2023, Air Mobility Command boss Gen. Mike Minihan laid out what he called his “Mobility Manifesto” at AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber conference, highlighted by plans to move ...
Air Force F-15s and F-16s are now cleared to refuel from new KC-46A tankers using the air-to-air refueling boom, the head of Air Mobility Command, Gen. Mike Minihan, directed Oct. 15. The order is the third "interim capability release" since July clearing aircraft to refuel ...
Gen. Mike Minihan assumed command of Air Mobility Command from Gen. Jacqueline D. Van Ovost, who will soon take the reins of U.S. Transportation Command, during a ceremony Oct. 5 at Scott Air Force Base, Ill. Minihan, who last served as deputy commander of U.S. ...