MARCH 21, 2022 - The Digital Twin Hololab went live at Tyndall Air Force Base March 17 to showcase the base in a digital model as part of Installation of the Future efforts. The digital base will allow cutting-edge planning concepts and innovative technologies to be integrated and enable numerous capabilities for warfighters throughout the Air Force. The Hololab is the … [Read more...]
Airmen Modernize LC-130 for Future Fight
A Lc-130 “Skibird” assigned to the to the 109th Airlift Wing, New York National Guard, is prepped for a mission at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. The 109th Airlift Wing supported the 34th season of Operation Deep Freeze at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, from October 2021 through February 2022. MARCH 18, 2022 - LC-130 Hercules aircraft will have a smoother takeoff from Antarctica … [Read more...]
US Marines and Airmen Perform Hot-Pit Refueling Training
MARCH 16, 2022 – U.S. Marines, with Marine Corps Installations Pacific, and Airmen with the 355th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron conducted hot-pit refueling training on Kadena Air Base, March 9. The training helped increase the Marines’ and Airmen’s proficiency using a single-point refuel pump to refuel the F-35A Lightning II upon immediate landing. During this refueling … [Read more...]
History Made with First Airman Flight of Electric Aircraft
MARCH 16, 2022 - Hank Griffiths and Maj. Jonathan Appleby, both Air Force pilots, flew BETA Technologies’ electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, ALIA, as the first-ever Airmen to fly an electric aircraft with a military airworthiness, March 9. This milestone, which took place at BETA’s Plattsburgh, New York, hangar and testing facility – just 35 miles from its South … [Read more...]
You Look Like You Belong in the Air Force
MARCH 15, 2022 - This is part of the Build Your Legacy feature series highlighting how new recruits were influenced to join the 307th Bomb Wing by veterans and current military members. Kalill Speight, a Shreveport native, spent high school focusing on academics and getting a sports scholarship for college. He had a plan, he said. “When I was in high school, I didn’t … [Read more...]