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No F-35 and DoD flight demos at Paris Airshow

Posted on March 25, 2015March 25, 2015 by alert5

Despite an increase in the U.S. presence at this year’s Paris Airshow, the Pentagon will not be sending the F-35 there to attend the show.

By Ronnie Macdonald from Chelmsford, United Kingdom [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Roll out ceremony for second B-29 to be restored to flying condition

Posted on March 25, 2015March 25, 2015 by alert5

After 15 years of effort, the second B-29 bomber to be restored to flying condition was rolled out again in Wichita on Mar. 23.

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Construction for USAF Space Fence Radar in the Marshall Islands begins

Posted on March 24, 2015 by alert5

Work for the new S-band Space Fence radar system has started on Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean last month.

“Kwajalein Atoll 2003-02-07 – Landsat 7 – 30m” by NASA – NASA/USGS Landsat satellite image GeoTIFF archive, http://glovis.usgs.gov. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

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CNAF on stealth, CV-22 and woman Blue Angels fighter pilot

Posted on March 24, 2015 by alert5

Vice Adm. Mike Shoemaker, commander of Naval Air Forces, sat down with Navy Times and spoke on a wide range of issues such as stealth for future fighters and having a woman F/A-18 Blue Angels pilot.

U.S. Navy photo

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First U.S. Navy Reservist F-35 flight instructor

Posted on March 24, 2015 by alert5

Elliott “Hemo” Clemence is the first U.S. Navy Reservist to be qualified as a F-35 flight instructor.