The Pentagon has further eased restrictions imposed on the F-35 test fleet by allowing the roughly twenty jets to to fly six hours between engine inspection if their missions involved aerial refueling missions and weapons testing.
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Category: Air Force
USAF General urged Pentagon to change way of buying satellites
Lt. Gen. John Hyten, vice commander of the U.S. Air Force Space Command, says the Pentagon should stop paying for non-recurring engineering costs to design, develop and test new satellites before buying them.
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B-52 carried out long-range surveillance flight over Panama Canal
A B-52 from the 96th Bomb Squadron flew a 15.5 hour intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance mission as part of PANAMAX 2014 on Aug. 11.
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Dutch F-16s intercepted Learjet
Two Dutch F-16s were scrambled to intercept a civilian Learjet over the Ijsselmeer on Aug. 12 after the private plane failed to respond to air traffic controllers.
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169th Fighter Wing training with Colombian Kfirs
South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing is in Colombia for Exercise Relampago 2014.