"It flies like a dream," ACC head Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach said of the new EA-37B Compass Call, a heavily adapted Gulfstream jet that will replace the EC-130.
Several members of a Tucson group opposed to basing F-35As at Davis-Monthan said the noise from the base’s current aircraft already is unbearable at times.
Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr., the legendary Tuskegee Airman and World War II pilot, will be celebrated today as the Air Force Academy names its airfield after the ground-breaking aviator.
The first of a dozen additional KC-135 refueling aircraft has arrived at Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington, ahead of the reactivation of the 97th Air Refueling Squadron.