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VAntage Point Tuskegee Airmen Veterans tell story in ‘Red Tail Angels’ The 99 th Pursuit Squadron activated March 23, 1941, in Tuskegee, Alabama. The Tuskegee Experiment was the first of its kind, producing an all Black unit to fight during World War II. Tuskegee graduated its first five U.S. Army Air Forces fighter pilots March 7, 1942, and more soon followed. In late 2020, the Air Force produced a three episode series called “Red Tail Angels” to tell their story. Episode 1 (27:41 run ...

By JIM THOMPSON | The Walton Sun, Santa Rosa Beach, Fla. | Published: February 22, 2021 EGLIN AFB, Fla. (Tribune News Service) — The Eglin Gulf Test and Training Range should get a slightly higher priority for upgrades than is currently planned by the Air Force, according to a recently released RAND Corp. analysis. The Eglin range, managed by the 96th Test Wing, covers 724 square miles of the Florida Panhandle and 120,000 square miles of the eastern Gulf of Mexico, stretching south to Key W...

The test range analysis focuses on the Air Forces own determination that "few, if any" of the services existing training ranges can provide fighter pilots with the training needed to address the threats posed by near-peer adversaries. The preface to the RAND study focuses on the 2018 national defense strategy that called for restoring warfighter readiness and moving the military from counterterrorism operations to "great power" competition, notably between the United States, Russia and Chin...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA The F-35 Lightning II makes its first appearance at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, March 10, 2014. (U.S. Air Force file photo) Service selects F-35A location overseas ROYAL AIR FORCE LAKENHEATH, United Kingdom — The 48th Fighter Wing has selected a new nickname for the first U.S. Air Force overseas-based F-35A Lightning II squadron. The wing solicited help from the public to name the unit. Suggestions were originally submitted in the fall of 2020 and were narrowed ...

The damaged French Air Force Rafale jet landed safely ten minutes later. No casualties were reported on the ground.

 - February 19, 2021, 7:28 AM The first AT-6E is seen during the formal handover ceremony that was conducted on February 3. (Photo: Brett Schauf via Air Force Life Cycle Management Center) The U.S. Air Force has finally acknowledged that it received the first of two Beechcraft AT-6E Wolverine light attack aircraft on December 18, 2020, and mounted a closed ceremony recognizing the handover in Wichita, Kansas, on February 3, 2021. The aircraft, wearing the serial 20-8101, was the third product...

Two B-1B Lancers took off from Andersen AFB, to conduct a Bomber Task Force (BTF) mission in the Indo-Pacific command theater, Dec. 16, 2020, integrating with Japanese fighters and making history landing at Iwakuni.,

ThirdSpace Inc. & US Air Force SBIR Partnership Share Article MADISON, Wis. (PRWEB) February 19, 2021 ThirdSpace Inc., a SAAS organizational culture platform, today announced a new partnership with the US Air Force through their AFWERX SBIR program. This partnership will explore the cultural and organizational needs of an Air Force unit such as the 115th Fighter Squadron in Madison, WI. The goal is to understand the greatest needs...

F-16s from ‘Triple Nickel’ and 510th train with first European air unit to acquire F-35s February 19 Two U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons assigned to the 31st Fighter Wing return from offensive counter air training with two Italian air force F-35 Lightning II assigned to the 32° Stormo during an Agile Combat Employment (ACE) exercise at Amendola Air Base, Italy, Feb. 17, 2021. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Ericka A. Woolever) F-16 Fighting Falcons from the “Triple Nicke...

Feb 19, 2021 Victor J. Christopher Jr., 97, of Meadow Street, Broadalbin, passed away Tuesday, February 16, 2021, at St. Peter’s Hospital, Albany, with family at his side. Born and raised in Broadalbin, NY, he was the oldest native in the village, and now bequeaths this title to Alex Klymkow. Vic was born in Broadalbin, on December 2, 1923, a son of Victor and Clara Crannell Christopher and was a 1940 graduate of Broadalbin Central School. After graduation, he enrolled at Union College in Sch...