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  • A Dutch bioenvironmental engineer attaches microphones to an F-35 maintainer prior to a testing session, led by acoustics experts in the Air Force Research Laboratory’s 711th Human Performance Wing. Other members of the international team test air quality, all in efforts to provide a report about the safety of personnel and F-35s inside the hardened aircraft shelter. (Photo courtesy of Royal Netherlands Air Force)

    Safe from sound? AFRL experts collect data inside hardened aircraft shelters around the world

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Acoustics researchers in the Air Force Research Laboratory’s 711th Human Performance Wing are collecting and delivering acoustics data from hardened aircraft shelters around the world—data that customers can then use to certify that F-35 fast-jet airframes and the personnel working inside are safe.Hardened
  • Barbara Barrett was easily confirmed by the Senate Oct. 16, to be the 25th Secretary of the Air Force. As an experienced pilot, former ambassador and senior government official, Barrett was praised for her wide experience and long history with aviation and the United States military. (U.S. Air Force file photo by Wayne Clark)

    Senate confirms Barrett to be Air Force secretary

    The 85 to 7 vote makes Barbara Barrett the third consecutive woman confirmed to lead the Air Force and its 685,000 total force Airmen. Barrett replaces Heather Wilson who resigned in May. Undersecretary Matthew Donovan served as acting secretary in the interim.
  • Tech Sgt. Nicole Finnegan, 97th Logistics Readiness Squadron noncommissioned officer in charge of storage, showcases the supply facility to Chief Master Sgt. Erik Thompson, 19th Air Force chief, in March at Altus Air Force Base, Okla. DLA’s Air Force NAM team helps Air Force logisticians obtain equipment and parts for various aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Cody Dow)

    DLA national account managers adapt to Air Force goals

    DLA’s seven-member Air Force National Account Manager team works with logisticians and planners at Air Force headquarters to increase service readiness.
  • An F-35 Lightning II conduct the first operational live-fire test of AIM-120 missiles released from an internal weapons storage bay over a controlled sea test range in the Pacific Ocean. The 412th Test Wing recently published the technical report on the F-35 Automatic Ground and Collision Avoidance System and have recommended it for fielding; seven years ahead of schedule. (U.S. Air Force photo by Christopher Okula)

    F-35 AGCAS recommended for fielding

    The 412th Test Wing recently published the technical report on the F-35 Automatic Ground and Collision Avoidance System and have recommended it for fielding; seven years ahead of schedule.
  • Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson testifies during a House Armed Services Committee hearing in Washington D.C., April 2, 2019. The committee convened to discuss fiscal year 2020 budget requests with the Air Force and Army senior leaders. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Wayne Clark)

    Wilson, Goldfein outline Air Force progress, need for larger force

    Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David L. Goldfein told the House Armed Services Committee Tuesday that the Air Force must get bigger and funding must be predictable to meet – and defeat – security threats at home, globally and in space in an era of great power competition.
  • Caption: A U.S. Navy F-35C Lightning II is drogue refueled by a KC-10A during a training mission near Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, April 10, 2015. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Brian Kelly)

    Joint test effort augments Navy, USMC F-35 night refueling

    The F-35 program recently completed testing on an improved lighting assembly with the KC-135 that will enable the Navy and Marine Corps F-35 variants to refuel behind the tanker at night. Flight testing of the redesigned light, which attaches to a refueling probe, was led by Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Maryland, and it was supported by
  • A KC-46A Pegasus connects with an F-35 Lightning II in the skies over California Jan. 22, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ethan Wagner)

    KC-46 Pegasus connects with fifth-generation fighter

    Pictured above: A KC-46A Pegasus refueling tanker from the 418th Flight Test Squadron connects with an F-35 Lightning II from the 461st Flight Test Squadron Jan. 22 during a test sortie over California. It is the first time the new aerial tanker connected with a fifth-generation fighter. The 418th FLTS is overseeing Phase III testing of the
  • Maj. Rachael Winiecki, 461st Flight Test Squadron F-35 test pilot (left), and Airman 1st Class Heather Rice, 412th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief, pose for a photo right after Winiecki landed her F-35 Lightning II on her first test mission flight in the fifth-generation fighter Dec. 14, 2018. (U.S. Air Force photo by Kenji Thuloweit)

    461st FLTS pilot makes history

    A routine F-35 flight test mission marked a significant event in Air Force history at Edwards Air Force Base, Dec. 14. Maj. Rachael Winiecki, 461st Flight Test Squadron, took off that morning in her F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and was later greeted by members of the squadron after she completed the first flight test mission led by a female F-35
  • An F-35 and F-16 from Edwards Air Force Base are joined by an F-15E and F-22 from the 422nd Test and Evaluation Squadron out of Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, along with a Navy F-18 from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 31 out of Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California, Dec. 31. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ethan Wagner)

    Joining forces: Test team completes fourth Orange Flag of 2018

    In the skies above California, an F-35 and F-16 from Edwards Air Force Base are joined by an F-15E and F-22 from the 422nd Test and Evaluation Squadron out of Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, along with a Navy F-18 from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 31 out of Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California.The Orange Flag Evaluation Team executed
  • An F-35 assigned to the 31st Test and Evaluation Squadron takes off from Edwards AFB, Calif. The 31st TES kicked off the DoD’s F-35 Initial Operational Test and Evaluation with a large force employment sortie Dec. 5. (Photo by Scott Wolfe)

    31st TES begins F-35 Initial Operational Test and Evaluation

    The 31st Test and Evaluation Squadron kicked off the Defense Department’s F-35 Lightning II Initial Operational Test and Evaluation with a large force employment sortie from Edwards AFB, California, Dec. 5.
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