Category: Air Force

The Royal Air Force Lockheed TriStar tanker transport has made its last appearance at Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) with a single flypast.
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Exercise Juniper Stallion 13, a combined, bilateral F-15/F-16 air-to-air exercise, by the U.S. European Command and the Israel Defense Forces has started.

IDF photo

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The U.S. Air Force will study the economic and environmental feasibility of a proposal to lease land at Vandenberg Air Force Base to companies to extract offshore oil and gas.
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A student pilot and his instructor had to eject from a T-38 after the jet went down south of Sheppard Air Force Base at approximately 6:48 a.m. on Jul. 19.

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Moody Air Force Base received its first new model plane since the 1960s when a HC-130J Combat King II arrived on Jul. 19.

U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jarrod Grammel

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