FYI, the F-22 Raptors are back up in the air. Here’s the Air Force announcement: The commander of Air Combat Command directed a stand-down of the fleet May 3 as a safety precaution, following 12 separate reported incidents where pilots experienced hypoxia-like symptoms. The incidents occurred over a three-year period beginning in April 2008. Officials […]
From the monthly archives:
September 2011
Check out these two panorama’s showing the interior of AgustaWestland’s AW139M chopper the company is proposing to replace the Air Force’s fleet of UH-1N Hueys that do everything from shuttle VIPs around Washington, DC, to patrolling the Air Force’s Minuteman III ICBM fields. The AW139M features ballistic flooring, twin machine guns, a FLIR sensor ball […]
Check out this beast that’s featured in Boeing’s display at this year’s Air Force Association conference in National Harbor, Md. It may or may not be a refined version of the F/A-XX sixth-gen naval fighter concept (Shown below) that the company unveiled last year. Come back tomorrow for more details on the bird shown above (notice […]
This morning, Air Force Secretary Michael Donely listed off a number of mission areas and programs that he will try to protect from budget “reductions that would cause irreparable harm. The service’s effort to field a new trainer jet to replace the 50-year-old T-38 wasn’t one of them. A little while later, Gen. Edward Rice, […]
Air Force Secretary Michael Donley just made and interesting speech at the Air Force Association’s annual conference just outside DC that, in a time of tight budgets where every line item must be looked at for a cut, he’ll work hard to protect almost everything the service does. Here’s a quick rundown of the tech-related […]
