Saving the USAF’s national treasures
By London Bishop - lbishop@aimmediamidwest.com
Lead Restoration Specialist Casey Simmons shows the original and replaced turtle deck section of the Thomas Morse S4C Scout, the body of the plane that rests behind the pilot seat.
The restoration team had to fabricate the seat of the plane from scratch. The bucket-shaped seat that was previously installed was from the 1950s, and could be used with a seat parachute. As seat parachutes didn’t exist in 1918, the team restored the seat to what it would have looked like during World War I.
Pictured is the body of the Thomas Morse S4C Scout, stripped of its fabric outer coating.
By Bradley Hicks, AEDC/PA / Published February 16, 2021
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M.
Throughout 2020, the 704th Test Group’s Operating Location AA, part of the Directed Energy Combined Test Force, or DE CTF, focused much of its effort on the testing of weapons designed to prevent adversarial drone observation and assault.
The latest system tested, the High Energy Laser Weapon System 2, also known as HELWS2 or H2, is a counter-Unmanned Aerial System (c-UAS) directed energy weapon (DEW).
H2 was tested as part of a directed energy experiment that began in the spring of 2020 and was managed by the Strategic Development Planning & Experimentation, or SDPE, office. This experiment has involved taking commercial off the shelf systems and deploying them to several Combatant Commands, or COCOMs, for training, testing and evaluation for a one-year period.
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