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The Air Force Can’t Seem to Keep Its Planes in the Air
Last Wednesday’s emergency landing is the third incident involving a U.S. Air Force warplane since the beginning of the year.
KC-10 Extenders Still Fly For The US Military Even After The Air Force Retired Them
As an epilogue, Omega Air continues to refuel US aircraft with ex-Japan Airlines and Dutch KC-10 even after the Air Force ...
A-10s still flying in Iraq and Syria even as ‘Warthog’ units get put out to pasture
A-10s are loved by ground troops for their ability to fly “danger close” missions against enemy forces, but the aircraft will soon be retired.
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B-1 bomber rises from the ‘Boneyard' to rejoin the Air Force's fleet
After a yearslong sabbatical in the desert, a retired B-1B Lancer will soon rejoin the Air Force's bomber fleet. The aircraft, nicknamed "Lancelot," is slated to replace another B-1 bomber whose ...
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'Boneyard' Davis-Monthan Air Force Base is where military retires planes
At the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, also known as the "Boneyard," US military planes from all services go to die. Single seat jets ...
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How the world's largest airplane boneyard stores 3,100 aircraft
They chose Davis-Monthan Air Force Base here in Tucson. With nearly 2,000 football fields worth of open desert, there was plenty of space. Barnard: We're known worldwide as the boneyard.
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US Air Force winds down HH-60G Pave Hawk operations
In January 2024, the air force posted footage of two Pave Hawks being loaded into a Lockheed Martin C-5M Super Galaxy strategic lifter for transport to the famous “Boneyard” at Davis-Monthan ...