T-6A maintenance issues have contributed to slower pilot certification ... competencies at FAA Part 141-certified schools before they go to Air Force bases to start training on the Beechcraft ...

Indian Air Force test pilot Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla ... After graduating City Montessori School, Aliganj, Lucknow in 2001, he joined the National Defence Academy (NDA) and was commissioned ...

Meink said he will also examine the Air Force’s struggle to retain pilots. The Air Force last ... design and evaluation of ballistic missile test vehicles for the Missile Defense Agency ...

As part of this year’s Combat Archer iteration, the Air Force will integrate the AGR-20 FALCO laser-guided rocket, which is designed to counter unmanned aerial systems. 21 F-16 fighter jets from ...

Jessica Peterson, a flight test engineer with the Air Force for nearly 20 years ... more credentials — like graduating from test pilot school, which is very hard to get into — my confidence ...

and been put through a ‘graduation standard’ version of the Air Force’s special operations-only PT test. In other words, on their first day as a STO candidate, the students had to hit PT ...

Tom Currie, vice president of flight operations for Bell, flew the first CV-22 produced for the Air Force — and will now fly the last. A former Air Force test pilot, Currie has been involved in ...

“The airplane looks like a bird flapping its wings. I understand the Air Force Test Pilot School still uses the footage as part of its curriculum.” Test flights that become case studies for ...

The Test Pilot School has been an instrumental part of Naval Air Station Patuxent River for the last eight decades, and a new exhibit will showcase just how instrumental it was to military aviation.

Beyond the range change, the Air Force has outlined other desired modifications, such as high-Mach and terrain-avoidance systems, a net arrestor system, upgrades to the pilot-vehicle interface and ...