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December 22, 2022

Crippled B-2 Bomber Remains on Whiteman AFB Runway

Of Low Spirits and Sticking to One’s Position

The United States Air Force has confirmed that recovery operations remain underway for the B-2A Spirit bomber that made an emergency landing at Missouri’s Whiteman Air Force Base on 10 December 2022. The incident—the second of its type the last 15-months—has forced closure of Whiteman’s only runway and impugned the wisdom of basing the entirety of America’s B-2 fleet and the two bomber wings by which it’s operated at an installation with only one runway.

908th Airlift Wing to Train USAF Students on New MH-139As

Montgomery Alabama's Maxwell AFB has been chosen as the home of the first MH-139A Grey Wolf training unit. The new helo was unveiled in 2020 as the upcoming replacement for the long-lived - but long in the tooth - UH-1N Huey. In 2020 Air Force assigned the unit as a training flight which would pull double duty in providing security and support for the series of intercontinental ballistic missile fields spanning Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, Colorado and Nebraska. The unit's MH-139 mission replaces the Reserve’s 908th Airlift Wing and its C-130Hs.