On Aug. 30, Lt. Col. Ian Bass, 5th Flying Training Squadron Assistant director of operations and T-6 instructor pilot, become one of the few pilots in the world to clock 5,000 flight hours on the T-6.
Lt. Col. Ian Bass, 5th Flying Training Squadron Assistant director of operations and T-6 instructor pilot, performs a pre-flight check before reaching an aviation milestone: 5,000 hours of flight time in a T-6 Texan II, on Aug. 30, 2022, at Vance Air Force Base, Okla. Bass is the first to accomplish that goal at the 5th FTS. (U.S. Air Force photo by A1C Christian Soto)
The Heavy Airlift Wing (HAW), an international airlift mission based in Europe using three C-17s, could be replicated in Africa using C-130s, based on a proposal put forward by the U.S. Air Force.