In Part 2 of our series about how Airmen helped defeat Iran’s April 13 attack on Israel, troops from the 494th Fighter Squadron describe how they kept launching jets even as their own base came under fire.
With the Air Force in the midst of its biggest testing boom in decades, the Maintenance Operational Test (MxOT) Division at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., is making sure those tests include an often-overlooked perspective: that of maintainers.
A new effort that requires aircraft maintainers to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) so that they can access more information about costly accidents will not change the level of transparency surrounding those events, the Air Force’s top safety officer said Oct. 18.
A B-52 maintainer at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., designed a new tool that shaves hours off the phase inspection process, delighting his fellow knuckle busters.
The 60th Air Mobility Wing, the last active-duty wing to operate the KC-10, conducted its final inspection on their Extender fleet ahead of the aircraft’s retirement in September.
A handheld flashlight left inside an engine inlet of an F-35 fighter was sucked into the engine during a maintenance ground run at Luke Air Force Base in March 2023, causing nearly $4 million worth of damage, according to a new accident investigation report. The ...
The average age for America’s fleet of F-15C Eagles is about 38 years old, and many of the aircraft’s spare parts are no longer produced or can take days to order from a manufacturer. Luckily, the Oregon Air National Guard’s 142nd Wing has a metals ...
A group of about 150 Aircraft Battle Damage Repair Airmen can perform depot-level maintenance in the field and put damaged aircraft back in the fight. Some of those Airmen were recognized at the AFA Warfare Symposium in Aurora, Colo., last week.
A pair of Tennessee Air National Guardsmen are collaborating with the Warner Robins Logistics Complex and the augmented reality/virtual reality development studio Moth+Flame—with support from ARCWERX—to create a virtual-reality simulator to help maintainers practice running USAF aircraft engines while saving money, increasing aircraft availability, and ...