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USAF let a contract for a light CAS aircraft destined to provide the backbone of the Afghan air force to an Embraer consortium two weeks ago, angering supporters of Wichita-based Hawker-Beechcraft, who argued that their AT-6 derivative of the T-6 Texan II trainer ought to get a “made in America” preference. Stuff and nonsense, [...]  USAF style: This holiday season, the Air Force has “separated” (that is, fired) 157 officers on the eve of their retirement, including pilots flying dangerous missions, to avoid paying their pensions. According to Department of Defense Instructions, those within six years of their 20-year retirement (with no disciplinary blemishes on their record) have the [...] Over at the Danger Room, David Axe is making noise about the USAF’s official investigation into the loss of an F-22A Raptor and its pilot up in Alaska in November 2010: When an F-22 Raptor malfunctioned in mid-flight, leading to a crash that killed its pilot, the Air Force went into damage-control mode. Gen. [...] The USAF explains – in part – how a mud hen went down in Libya during the late unpleasantness: At the conclusion of the investigation, the board president, Col. Scott Shapiro, USAFE Chief of Strategic Airlift Capabilities, found clear and convincing evidence that the cause of the mishap was the aircraft’s sudden departure from [...] A C-130J crew at the Paris Air Show, putting the venerable Hercules through maneuvers I would not have thought possible. H/T to occasional reader David for the link. Into the wild blue yonder: The Air Force is planning to lift the four-month grounding of its F-22 Raptor fleet, although it has yet to figure out what went wrong in the aircraft’s oxygen system, sources said. Service officials will meet Friday to determine what restrictions will remain on the planes, the culmination of [...] The Air Force is pushing to procure its next generation bomber using the same kind of rapid deployment capability it used for the MC-12 Project Liberty aircraft: The effort will use “what we have determined will be a more streamlined management process going forward, where we are using the Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) to [...] The Collings Foundation has a new war horse in the stable, and gave an old war horse a ride in her.
The Collings Foundation’s F-100F Super Sabre from INVERSION on Vimeo. Col. Day had 5000 hours in his log book, and 4500 of them in fighters before he volunteered for combt duty in [...] The Air Force Chief-of-Staff has delivered to Congress the approved answer on why the F-22 Raptor did not see action in the opening days of the Libyan adventure – it was too far away: Lockheed Martin Corp. F-22 fighters haven’t been used over Libya to attack air defenses or counter Libyan jets because they’re [...] The Air Force Times blames a combination of coalition politics and a relatively weak air-to-ground capability for keeping USAF’s exceptionally stealthy but exorbitantly expensive F-22 Raptor from yet another bug hunt: Experts inside and outside the Air Force said international politics, a broadening of the mission based on United Nations Security Council resolution 1973, [...] |
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