Author: Staff Writer

WASHINGTON — The Air Force has ditched its height requirements for officers who desire to fly its aircraft, an effort aimed in part at encouraging more women to attempt pilot training, the service announced Friday. The Air Force on May 13 rescinded its 2015 policy that restricted pilot training to officers between 5 feet, 4 […]

An Air Force reservist has qualified for the first time to fly the U-2 Dragon Lady, becoming one of fewer than 1,500 people to pilot the iconic spy plane. Maj. Jeffrey Anderson, a former active duty U-2 pilot who switched to the reserves more than two years ago, took a break from flying for Delta […]

Five airmen have received Combat Action Medals after their C-130 cargo plane narrowly avoided being hit by a rocket-propelled grenade fired by militants last fall, the Air Force said. The insurgents fired the round at the C-130J Super Hercules from the 39th Airlift Squadron, based out of Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, and deployed with […]

Montreal (dpa) – One person died and another was injured when a Canadian Snowbirds aerobatics jet crashed in a residential street in British Columbia on Sunday, the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) said on Twitter. Emergency services in the city of Kamloops were called to reports of a plane crashing into a house, the Royal […]

WASHINGTON — Air Force Col. Thomas Falzarano, who commanded the service’s 21st Space Wing, was found dead Tuesday at his home on Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado, service officials said Wednesday. The Air Force has opened an investigation into Falzarano’s death but initial indications show he likely died of natural causes, officials said in a […]

The court-appointed guardian for the daughter of a Hawaii Air Force couple who suffered a skull fracture, brain injury and broken ribs as a newborn has filed suit against the U.S. government for Tripler Army Medical Center’s alleged negligence in not spotting similar abuse involving her infant brother, who died 14 months earlier. At the […]

An airman who fled a Texas base after an altercation with police has been apprehended, Air Force officials said, ending a 16-day manhunt. Airman 1st Class Erland Injerd was arrested Thursday and was being held in a county jail near Dyess Air Force Base, the Air Force Office of Special Investigations said Friday on Facebook. […]

A German P-3 Orion crew made light of a Russian intercept while performing maritime operations over the Eastern Baltic Sea, showing just how common such intercepts are. Despite being the frequent subject of tabloid articles around the world, intercepts involving Russian and NATO aircraft are almost common to the point of boring. To break up […]

Guam’s break from the bombing component of the US Air Force was short-lived, as a task force of B-1Bs descend upon the island to conduct Indo-Pacific-centric operations. The 7th Bomb Wing’s 9th Bomb Squadron dispatched four bombers and around 200 Airmen to Guam’s Andersen Air Base earlier this week, filling a gap left by B-52s […]

An airman who police say scuffled with officials at a Texas air base before arming himself and fleeing over the perimeter fence had threatened his chain of command and refused to hand over his firearms, a criminal complaint said. A security forces patrolman and two other Dyess Air Force Base officials visited the on-base home […]