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The Air Force has issued a report stating the Thunderbirds F-16 that crashed at the Dayton International Airport last June was the result of the pilot landing too fast on a wet runway. A Thunderbirds pilot was going too fast in bad weather and without enough stopping distance when landing on a wet runway, causing a crash […]
Air Force One departs Yokota Air Base, Japan, Nov. 7, 2017, after President of the United States Donald J. Trump’s first visit Japan. Trump was in Japan for three days as part of a 12 day tour of the Indo-Asia Pacific region. U.S. Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe
An Air Force F-16 Viper sits just a few hundred feet from the wall of fire at the Fort Worth Alliance Air Show, Oct. 28, 2017 at Fort Worth, Texas. 2016 Alliance Air Show Photo by Air Force Viper Demo Team
Senior Airmen Brittany Galloway and Dillon Cutlip, 57th Wing creative design team members, observe their final product on the tail of an F-15C Eagle at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, Nov. 1, 2017. The aircraft is being repainted to recognize the Air Force’s 70th Anniversary as well as the unity between the Las Vegas community […]
Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, NV held ‘Aviation Nation 2017′ over the Veterans Day weekend. Take an inside look at the airshow with Air Force Staff Sergeant Kyle Gott! Aviation Nation 2017 at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is the 70th year of the US Air Force. Aviation Nation 2017 is […]
The shortage of Air Force pilots is getting worse and has now reached 2000 according to the Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson. According to Wilson, the Air Force has a deficit of about 2,000 pilots out of a total force of about 20,000 aviators. “That’s one in 10 that we’re short,” she said, pointing out that […]
The US Air Force has awarded a contract worth $26 million to Lockheed Martin for the development and production of a high powered laser weapon that possibly could be mounted on fighter aircraft in the near future. “Lockheed Martin continues to rapidly advance laser weapon systems and the technologies that make them possible,” said Dr. Rob Afzal, […]
Museum restoration crews and 88th ABW civil engineers work to install the upper turret of the B-17F Memphis Belle™ in preparation for the exhibit opening. Plans call for the aircraft to be on public display here at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force on May 17, 2018. – National Museum of the US […]
50 years of service and still going strong! Dale Hopkins is an amazing person and a T-1A Jayhawk simulator instructor with no intentions of retiring anytime soon! The former F-4 pilot is an inspiration! “I joined the Air Force [on Dec. 30] of 1960, went to Officer Training School, and commissioned on the 29th of […]
So what did you guess? 100? 250? How many trained F-35 pilots do you think there are? Answer: 500! Congratulations to Major Chris Campbell, a former F-16 test pilot who recently became the 500th trained F-35 pilot! “As a test pilot, working on the F-35 is an opportunity for me to be a real force-multiplier,” […]
A sight you will never see again. Many say the F-117 Nighthawk was the first real ‘stealth’ aircraft. A product of Lockheed’s infamous Skunk Works the F-117 first flew in 1981 and was retired in 2008. Featured image by Lockheed
Soldiers and equipment arrive at White Sands missile Range for the exercise Vigilant Shield 18. Includes video of equipment arriving at Condron Army Airfield, and Soldiers arriving at the vacant, move-in-ready company area. – Defense Video A 10-day rapid deployment exercise designed to test the Army’s capacity to protect critical defense facilities kicked off here […]
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