Thu, 02/18/2021 - 12:00am
By:
Kristen Edwards
Air Tractor’s Vice President of Finance, David Ickert, has recently retired following 31 years of employment. Upon returning to Olney in 1976, Ickert’s wife Marilynn began working at Air Tractor, with Ickert joining her in 1989.
“One of the first things David Ickert did was to take over managing the company’s finances. This freed our founder Leland Snow to focus on engineering groundbreaking airplanes like the AT-802,” says Air Tractor President Jim Hirsch.
“Being an engineer, Leland was a very precise person,” Ickert recalls. “He was certainly not one to do anything halfway, but it stretched his time to do all the engineering, all of the marketing, and then all of the accounting and the finance. I think he had just reached a point that he was ready to bring in some help.”
New Plane Key to Special Ops Vision for Africa, General Says Air Force Special Operations Command is planning flight demonstrations in coming months.
A new aircraft that can fly reconnaissance missions and bomb enemy forces is key to U.S. special forces’ future in Africa, the head of Air Force Special Operations Command said Tuesday.
Lt. Gen. James Slife spoke as the Biden administration reviews the U.S. military’s global footprint and prepares to advise Congress on reorienting American forces for future conflicts.
“I would suggest to you that if we want to maintain pressure on those violent extremist organizations that pose a threat to the United States that pose a threat to the homeland we may need to remain engaged in portions of Africa against very specific threats and not just broadly, anywhere where there s an extremist, but specifically where those that pose an external threat are,” Slife said Tuesday during a Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies
Air Force Pitches Armed Overwatch Planes to Patrol Austere Regions, Police Africa Extremism
Members from Hurlburt Field, Fla., do final checks on their U-28A aircraft after landing Sept. 9, 2017, at Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark. (Jeremy McGuffin/U.S. Air Force)
17 Feb 2021
Air Force Special Operations Command s Armed Overwatch program will be very different from the service s failed pursuit of turboprop or armed reconnaissance jet aircraft, according to the top AFSOC commander.
Speaking to reporters during a Mitchell Institute event Tuesday, Lt. Gen. James Slife said AFSOC s goal is to look beyond aircraft with only one core mission. This is not a rehash of the Air Force light attack program, he said during the virtual discussion.
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