Crew Chief's Small Discovery Uncovers Large Safety Problem
Sergeant Shawn A. Howard is a defensive weapon of the rarest
kind. He is one of only a handful of Marines who ensure the safety
of combat aircraft at the depot level. He has a personal stake in
such duties.
The B-17, Liberty Belle, took to the air for the first time in
almost four decades on 8 December 2004 putting the flying back into
Flying Fortress again. Don Brooks, founder of the Liberty
Foundation, was on hand to see the maiden flight as she circled
over the former Flying Tigers Warbird Museum (having been clobbered
into temporary closure by a number of consecutive hurricanes)
at the Kissimmee Gateway airport in Florida where she had spent the
last 14 years under restoration.
A fire caused an MQ-1 Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle to crash
while supporting operations near Balad Air Base, Iraq, on Aug. 17,
according to an Air Force report released Dec. 29.
A loss of fuel to both engines resulted in a dual-engine
flameout causing an F-15 Eagle to crash June 18 about 60 miles
north of Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., according to an Air Force
report released Dec. 29.
Airmen from Yokota Air Base, Japan, are among those bringing the
first wave of relief for people on the coastlines of Southeast Asia
and Eastern Africa. The area was devastated by a massive 9.0
magnitude earthquake and equally powerful tsunamis.
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