A late night call, a cancelled sortie and some needed
flexibility led an aircrew from the 351st Air Refueling Squadron at
England's RAF Mildenhall to expedite medical care for more than a
dozen severely injured troops being transported from Iraq to
Andrews Air Force Base, MD on February 7.
The UK Ministry of Defense announced Tuesday the decision
to destroy a Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules following a
landing incident 12 miles north of Al-Amarah in the southern Iraq
province of Maysan.
That And Other Milestones Reached For JSF Development
Program
ANN has learned Lockheed Martin and partner BAE Systems have
completed testing of the initial flight-clearance envelope on the
Cooperative Avionics Test Bed (affectionately called CATBird), a
highly modified 737 designed to validate the F-35 Lightning II's
avionics.
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