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Dale Hopkins – 50 Years of Service and Still Going Strong!

November 6, 2017 Dale Hopkins, T-1A Jayhawk simulation instructor pilot

50 years of service and still going strong! Dale Hopkins is an amazing person and a T-1A Jayhawk simulator instructor with no intentions of retiring anytime soon! The former F-4 View More ›

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Question? How Many Trained F-35 Pilots are There? Read This to See the Answer

November 6, 2017 Maj. Chris Campbell, 461st Flight Test Squadron director of operations, is an F-16 test pilot

So what did you guess? 100? 250? How many trained F-35 pilots do you think there are? Answer: 500! Congratulations to Major Chris Campbell, a former F-16 test pilot who View More ›

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Watch: SpaceX Launches Echostar Satellite with Used Rocket. Beautiful Launch!

November 3, 2017 First stage of a Falcon 9 Full Thrust rocket on the autonomous spaceport drone ship (ASDS) Of Course I Still Love You.

A two-stage Falcon 9 booster with a pre-flown first stage successfully launched the EchoStar 105/SES-11 communications satellite to orbit today (Oct. 11), marking the third time SpaceX has pulled off such a used-rocket View More ›

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Watch: B-2 Flies 37-Hour Mission to the Pacific and Back from Whiteman AFB, Missouri

October 31, 2017 U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit Stealth bomber, 393rd Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, 509th Bomb Wing, Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo

Amazing! An Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber flew on a 37 hour mission from Whiteman AFB, in Missouri going to an undisclosed area of the Pacific Ocean and then back. View More ›

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Picture of the Day: Night Flight Testing Low-FOD Drogue NAS Patuxent River

October 30, 2017 U.S. Navy F/A-18E Salty Dog 100 of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Two Three (VX-23) conduct night-time ARS ADV (Aerial Refueling Store Air Defense Variant) Low FOD Drogue Evaluation over the Chesapeake Bay on 14 Jan. 2016. VX-23 is part of Naval Test

Night flight during developmental testing of the new Low-FOD drogue at Naval Air Station Patuxent River. The new drogue will improve readiness, availability and significantly reduce the fleet burden of View More ›

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Chief Warrant Officer Jacob M. Sims Identified as Service Member Killed in Afghanistan Helicopter Crash

October 30, 2017 Chief_Warrant_Officer_Jacob_M._Sims

The US Department of Defense has released the name of the service member who was killed last week in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.  Chief Warrant Officer Jacob M. Sims. “We View More ›

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President Trump Issues Executive Order to ‘promote safe operation of unmanned aircraft systems’

October 29, 2017 drone-delivery-trump-eo

Delivery drones may be filling the skies sooner than you thought! President Trump just issued an executive order to speed up the process for approval of unmanned drone delivery systems. View More ›

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Watch: Flyby of Historic Wake Island

October 29, 2017 VFA-27 Royal Maces a United States Navy FA-18E Super Hornet squadron based in Atsugi Japan flies over the Downtown area of Wake Island

Cool video of Wake Island and a flyby at the end. Wake Island is a tiny island in Micronesia in the Pacific Ocean, located 2/3 of the way from Honolulu View More ›

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Picture of the Day: Navy F-18 Aircraft Off the Coast of Wake Island Heritage Flight

October 27, 2017 Navy aircraft fly off the coast of Wake Island in the western Pacific Ocean heritage flight

Navy aircraft fly off the coast of Wake Island in the western Pacific Ocean, Oct. 26, 2017, during a Navy heritage event with the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt. The View More ›

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USS Nimitz Arrival Makes Three US Aircraft Carriers in Western Pacific

October 26, 2017 nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) underway off the coast of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean

Many think President Trump is mobilizing for an attack on North Korea. In recent days there have been stories of nuclear capable B-52’s possibly being put on 24 hour alert View More ›

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