A team of maintainers at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C. demonstrated they could rapidly deploy and repair ALQ-184 electronic countermeasure pods overseas, even in austere environments.
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 ...
Kadena Air Base's 18th Maintenance Group received the 2023 Pheonix Award for best field-level maintenance unit in the Department of Defense.
While Air Force pilots battle in the sky at the William Tell fighter meet, maintainers will face off to determine who is the best weapons load crew in the service.
Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla. is building three state-of-the-art F-35 hangars for the 325th Maintenance Group, but they will not be completed until 2026.
A three-person shop at Hill Air Force Base designed a $45 data port cover that could save millions of dollars and many headaches across Air Force bases with the F-35.
Blacksmiths have produced weapons and armor for thousands of years, and the Air Force still relies on them today to shape metal into aircraft parts. But emerging technology could introduce a new form of blacksmithing where artificial intelligence makes the fine-tuned decisions involved in bending ...
An Air Force F-22 Raptor returned to duty in Alaska on May 4 five years after the stealth fighter suffered extensive damage from a botched takeoff on April 13, 2018. With only 186 Raptors in the entire Air Force inventory, getting just one of the ...
When our nation’s military branches or government agencies need to perform an important mission on our country’s behalf, the team at King Aerospace is ready to serve. “No one is happy when their aircraft isn’t available,” says King Aerospace’s Chairman...
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.
Air Force maintainers examining the propellers on C-130H planes used electric arc etching pens to inscribe serial numbers once inspections were complete—and in doing so, likely caused the damage that has forced a grounding of the fleet. That’s the conclusion Air Mobility Command has reached ...
The Air Force's technology innovation hub has asked technology companies, industry partners, academia, and others to "revolutionize" flight line operations. The effort—a “sequel” to AFWERX's 2020 base of the future initiative—is aimed at addressing challenges such as airfield maintenance and repair; aircraft maintenance operations; and ...