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KC-46A pilots cannot take off until OBIGGS counts to zero

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A category 2 deficiency for the KC-46A aerial refueling tanker is prevent pilots from taking off in the tanker until the On-Board Inert Gas Generation System (OBIGGS) countdown timer reaches zero.

A rainbow over Boeing Field, Seattle, Washington, as seen from the flight deck of a KC-46A Pegasus, just prior to its delivery flight to Pease Air National Guard Base, New Hampshire, Feb. 5, 2021.
The jet, which was the twelfth and final of Pease’s new fleet of aerial refuelers, was piloted by a crew from the base. (Courtesy photo/Col. Nelson Perron)

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U.S. Air Force Radiation Assessment Team’s contributions during Operation Tomadachi

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The U.S. Air Force Materiel Command History Office has published a photographic essay from the archives of the Air Force Radiation Assessment Team personnel who were deployed to Japan during the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

SENDAI AIRPORT, Japan — Staff Sgt. Kevin Rivera (Left) and Senior Master Sgt. Dean Kim (Right), both from the Air Force Radiation Assessment Team, check soil by a Sodium Iodide detector at Sendai Airport, April 05, 2011. AFRAT conducts radiological analysis of air, water, soil and physiological technical expertise in detection, survey and monitoring. (U.S. Air Force photo/Osakabe Yasuo)

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Japanese and U.S. forces carried out their largest joint airdrop training exercise

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More than 500 Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) paratroopers performed a static-line jump at the Combined Arms Training Center Drop Zone Camp Fuji, Japan on Mar. 9. This is the largest U.S-Japan personnel drop in the history of the two countries’ alliance.

Japan Ground Self Defense Force paratroopers line up to load onto a C-130J Super Hercules, assigned to the 374th Airlift Wing, during exercise Airborne 21 at Yokota Air Base, Japan, March 9, 2021. More than 500 JGSDF paratroopers performed a static-line jump at the Combined Arms Training Center Drop Zone Camp Fuji, Japan, making it the largest U.S-Japan personnel drop in the history of the two countries’ alliance. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Gabrielle Spalding)

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Air-to-air photos of F-15EX’s delivery flight to Eglin AFB

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Lt. Col. Richard “Tac” Turner, Commander, 40th Flight Test Squadron, and Lt. Col. Jacob “Duke” Lindaman, Commander, 85th Test & Evaluation Squadron, deliver the first F-15EX to its new home station, Eglin AFB, Florida, 11 March, 2021. The 40th FLTS will take possition of EX1 and the 85th TES will own EX2 upon its arrival, coming soon. Squadron aircrews and testers will work together to complete the combined developmental and operational testing simultaneously. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. John Raven)

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Warbirds Over Wanaka, RNZAF to pay $450 thousand in damages for causing Yak-3M crash

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A judge in New Zealand has ruled that Warbirds Over Wanaka and the Royal New Zealand Airforce have been found liable for the accident involving a Yak-3M in 2018.

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