• KC-46 completes required flight tests

    The successful A-10 mission was the last of six in-flight refueling demonstrations required before the tanker program can request approval from Frank Kendall, the under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, to award production Lots 1 and 2, totaling 19 KC-46A aircraft.

  • Nature’s hazards: Poisonous plants

    State parks and woodlands are favorite places for many people who enjoy outdoor activities. Unfortunately, contact with poisonous plants can make these outings a miserable experience.Poison ivy, poison oak and poison sumac all contain the plant oil urushiol, which can cause severe skin rash when any

  • Dig these Wright-Patt Cemetery Facts

    Hiram Honaker is believed to be the only U.S. veteran to be buried on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.Honaker, a Black Civil War Veteran, is buried in the Cox Family Cemetery, located near the base runway.According to war department records, Honaker had enlisted in the Union Army on Sept. 1, 1864 at

  • B-52 CONECTs to the digital age

    The venerable B-52 Stratofortress, our nation's preeminent strategic bomber, is getting the first major upgrade to its communications system in many years, making it an even more lethal weapon system in the Air Force's arsenal.OC-ALC's 565th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron is installing Combat Network

  • Next LCMC Focus Week begins July 25

    The next Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Focus Week is scheduled for July 25 to 29. As with previous focus weeks, offerings include both functional and general training.Courses are available locally and via distance learning through Defense Collaboration Services, or DCS. Focus Week

  • July is Make a Difference to Children Month

    While many people make a positive difference in the lives of children on a daily basis without much thought at all, July, as Make a Difference to Children Month, provides everyone an opportunity to purposely prepare and complete activities to inspire children.There are several organizations on base

  • Pegasus refuels Globemaster

    The KC-46A Pegasus connected in flight with an F-16 Fighting Falcon on July 8 and a C-17 Globemaster III on July 12.These tests with the F-16 and C-17 were in support of the Milestone C requirements to rendezvous, contact, and transfer fuel to several receiver aircraft types.An initial attempt with

  • Detachment standardizes aeromedical qualification training for Total Force

    Airmen across the Air Force assigned to 31 aeromedical evacuation squadrons must complete vigorous training to provide life-saving in-transit care on fixed wing aircrafts.The 375th Air Mobility Wing’s newest Formal Training Unit, Detachment 4, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the

  • Airman links deployed operators to human performance experts

    Many scientists and engineers go directly from school to laboratories and do not get the opportunity to work side-by-side with customers who use the products they create.But for a behavioral scientist in the 711th Human Performance Wing here, that is not the case.Lt. Anthony Eastin, a behavioral

  • Battlefield Airmen use science to beat the heat

    Heat-related illness is a critical factor when personnel are operating in extreme temperatures. Dr. Reginald O'Hara and his exercise physiology research team at the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, are working to reduce that heat stress.