The 337th Test and Evaluation Squadron will conduct the final live JASSM-ER flight test Aug. 30 with the B-1.
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Category: Air Force
ANG’s first F-35 instructor pilot
Maj. Jay Spohn is the U.S. Air National Guard’s first F-35 Lightning II instructor pilot and he completed his final of six flights on Aug. 3.
U.S. Air Force photo/Maj. Karen Roganov
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First C-130J for Oman takes flight
The first of three C-130J for Oman has made its maiden flight and is scheduled for delivery later this year.
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First F-35 airborne weapons separation test
F-35B test aircraft BF-3 has completed the first airborne weapons separation test for the JSF program. Flown by Lockheed Martin test pilot Dan Levin, BF-3 executed an inert 1,000-pound GBU-32 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) separation weapon over water in an Atlantic test range .
Lockheed Martin/Andy Wolfe
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RAAF F/A-18 pilot flies F-22 at JBER
Royal Australian Air Force Flight Lt. Mark Biele is one year into his three-year exchange with the 90th Fighter Squadron at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska as a F-22 pilot.
U.S. Air Force photo/David Bedard
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