Israel successfully tested the Arrow–2 anti-missile missile Tuesday morning, intercepting an incoming rocket at high altitude, the Defense Ministry announced. It was the 11th test of Israel's anti-ballistic missile system. The United States has put up most of the funding for the Arrow program and US officials were on hand for the test. Describing the test launch as "routine," a defense ministry statement said its objectives were to demonstrate the Arrow's systems improved performance against incoming targets at a higher altitude.

The following is a joint message from Secretary of the Air Force Dr. James G. Roche and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. John P. Jumper: “It was the most significant 12 seconds of the last 100 years. “On Dec. 17, 1903, two bicycle builders from Ohio, Orville and Wilbur Wright, launched the world on a path to the heavens when their rudimentary airplane of wire, wood and canvas wings lifted off a windy, grassy hill at Kitty Hawk (N.C.). “Since their marvelous achievement, aviation has enabled our expansion, enhanced our commerce and expanded our communication...

Across the Wright Brothers National Monument on Monday, there were a variety of uniforms. Plenty of guys and gals in flight suits, then a pack of Naval Officers in their blues, with white covers, an Air Force Major in his blues, and then another set of blues with some serious gold braid around the cuffs. Wait a minute…that would be an Admiral, right? In Blues? Hmm. That sort of cuts it down to the Coast Guard, and it turns out to be Rear Admiral Jim Olson, call sign "Ox" who has the distinction of being the "Ancient Albatross" of the Coast Guard, the aviator who has been on duty the longest period of time… the senior aviator, based on when he got his wings. For Admiral Olson, that would be in May of 1972.  If you're like me…that makes you feel

He is Whiteman 7. He is Spirit 36. He is "GQ." He is the first Whiteman-trained B-2 Spirit instructor pilot. And now, he is the project officer for the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Spirit of Missouri’s arrival at Whiteman today. Col. Scott Land, 509th Operations Group deputy commander, who has been assigned here three times during the last 10 years, has been a part of the B-2 program from its infancy.

As the saying goes, it's what's on the inside that counts. That is the case for a 45-plus-year-old KC-135 Stratotanker that has recently gone through an interior sprucing-up, by airmen of the 92nd Maintenance Squadron’s equipment excellence shop. "These improvements are critical to our mission," said Col. Anthony M. Mauer, 92nd Air Refueling Wing commander. "It's no small task, but the folks in maintenance are doing an incredible job keeping this aircraft (ready)."

With equipment older than many of its users, air traffic control services here present some unique challenges for the 32 people keeping Air Force and Army aircraft operating safely. Adapting to the challenges, airmen working in the 506th Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron are responsible for Kirkuk’s airspace and all the airspace of northern Iraq, officials said.

Lockheed Martin and the Air Force have started flight testing the latest block of software developed for the C-5 Avionics Modernization Program (AMP). Testing began on Dec. 12 with a 4.8-hour flight from the company's facility here in an upgraded C-5B. Called Block 2.1, this is the third of four major software builds in the modernization program. It alone represents one third of the total amount of software code to be developed for AMP. More than 90 percent of the code to be developed for AMP is now in flight test.