By Valerie Insinna August 23 Northrop Grumman has a pitch to solve communications problems between the F-35 and F-22: Put a new radio on a Global Hawk drone and have it act like a translator between the two assets. The U.S. Air Force’s two most advanced fighter jets, the F-35 and F-22, cannot currently transmit […]
By Valerie Insinna August 30 A wing commander at Luke Air Force Base on Wednesday lifted an altitude restriction on F-35 flights at the Arizona base, but Air Force investigators are no closer to understanding what prompted five incidents of pilot oxygen deprivation earlier this summer. Between May 2 and June 8, five different Luke […]
By Lara Seligman September 18, 2017 The U.S. Air Force is making changes to F-35 flight equipment to make breathing easier for pilots, as the Pentagon continues searching for a root cause of five hypoxia-like cockpit incidents in the new fighter at an Arizona Air Force base… [FULL ARTICLE]
By Valerie Insinna September 17 As the Air Force increases its F-35 buy rate and more joint strike fighters come online, the question is not if it will begin retiring its legacy combat aircraft, but when. Air Force leaders hope to have a better answer to that question later this fall, when Air Combat Command […]
By Colonel Rosanne Greco Ret. I’m writing from the Burlington, Vermont area to tell the people of the Boise, Idaho area that you are not alone. Although we are thousands of miles apart, we are close in our shared concern about a threat to our cities: the basing of the F-35. This is not hyperbole. […]
By James Marc Leas July 19, 2017 A crisis plagues 976 families in a working-class neighborhood of South Burlington, Vermont. Eighteen screamingly loud F-16 fighter bombers based at Vermont’s main airport are the cause. Worse, the number of families in crisis from this jet noise is set to sharply increase in two years when the […]
By Sven Berg June 19, 2017 The Federal Aviation Administration will cover 93.75 percent of the $300,000 cost to design, acquire and install a noise-monitoring system at the Boise Airport. The airport, which the city of Boise owns, will cover the remaining $18,750. The monitoring system will allow the airport to compare the amount of noise […]
By Sven Berg August 20, 2017 On Aug. 7, Elaine Clegg stood at Hill Air Force Base in Ogden, Utah, and listened to the roar of F-35s taking off and landing a couple hundred yards away. Clegg, president of the Boise City Council, also witnessed F-16s and other planes at the base. She said she […]
By George Prentice July 19, 2017 The city of Boise and a grassroots neighborhood group are in a dogfight over proposed mission Listen to enough people argue about the possibility of an F-35 mission coming to Gowen Field in Boise and you’ll soon realize the only common ground you hear is an agreement that only […]
By David Wichner June 20, 2017 The National Guard Bureau plans to discontinue its “Operation Snowbird” visitor pilot training program, according to documents filed this week in a federal lawsuit aimed at stopping expansion of that program and other training at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. A May 23 memorandum from the chief of airspace and […]