Cast your mind back to the distant past – three weeks ago – when Senate Republicans drafted a bill they call the “Health, Economic Assistance Liability Protection and Schools Act,” or HEALS Act for short. This was a volley in the intramural Capitol Hill tennis match of negotiations on the next round…

AUSTIN, Texas — Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr., and Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force JoAnne S. Bass came together to witness the advances in electric vertical takeoff and landing flight (eVTOL) at Camp Mabry, Aug. 20.

Exactly 11…

AL UDEID AIR BASE, Qatar — The 50th Air Refueling Squadron from MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, along with several of their KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft, arrived at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, as part of a mass unit deployment, Aug. 18, 2020.

This marks the first time the 50th ARS has deployed a…

PATUXENT RIVER, Md. — A team of pilots and engineers from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (HX) 21 based at Naval Air Station Patuxent River recently completed a crucial series of sea trials of the CH-53K King Stallion that not only provided them with valuable developmental test information about …

RAMSTEIN, Germany –– From August 21 to 28, 2020 a NATO AWACS aircraft will deploy to Krakow, Poland to join a binational training event of Alliance members Poland and the United States. Working closely together with the Polish Control and Reporting Centre, the AWACS crew will support the Polish and…

The 32nd Wing of the Italian Air Force reached 5,000 flight hours with the F-35A on August 12, the Italian Air Force announced.

The 5,000 flight hours milestone is testimony to the experience achieved in operations with the F-35: since 2018 the aircraft was integrated in the Italian airspace surv…