Article: Let's Solve the Tanker Mess

Article: Senate Appropriators Question Spending on Aircraft, Air Force Eyes More C-17s.(defense spending)
Defense Daily;  March 30, 2006 ;     509 words ......yesterday about the Air Force's plans for replacing...more money on cargo aircraft and bombers rather...questioned why the Air Force was seeking to end...BA] C-17 cargo aircraft production in 2008...at a higher rate, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen...buying seven more ...

Article: Tanker Buy Could Stop New Reconnaissance Aircraft Buy, Air Force says.
Defense Daily;  October 30, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Command and Control (MC2A) aircraft, according to the Air Force's top acquisition official...the number of F/A-22 aircraft. The Air Force is currently allotted...plans devised by the Air Force. Under the 100 aircraft lease, the lease would...

Article: AIR FORCE, ARMY TO PURCHASE SMALL CARGO AIRCRAFT
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 30, 2006 ;     700+ words ......the Army and the Air Force may be flying the same aircraft to provide airlift...a "Future Cargo Aircraft," while the Air Force calls it a "Light...proceed with about 75 aircraft," General Dichter said. "The Air Force will pick up, using...

Article: Military Aircraft: Observations on the Air Force's Plan to Lease Aerial Refueling Aircraft.
General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony;  October 1, 2003 ;     460 words ......aerial refueling aircraft after the Air Force reported its plans...proposed lease. The Air Force plans to lease 100 KC-767A aircraft for 6 years each...1) summarize the Air Force's report for leasing KC-767A aircraft, (2) present its...

Article: Military Aircraft: Observations on the Proposed Lease of Aerial Refueling Aircraft by the Air Force.
General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony;  October 1, 2003 ;     460 words ......aerial refueling aircraft after the Air Force reported its plans...proposed lease. The Air Force plans to lease 100 KC-767A aircraft for 6 years each...1) summarize the Air Force's report for leasing KC-767A aircraft, (2) present its...

Article: Air Force Shifting Some C-21A Aircraft From Active Duty To Guard, Retiring Others.
Defense Daily;  December 8, 2006 ;     455 words ......Michael Sirak The Air Force is implementing...executive transport aircraft from its active...to transfer 38 aircraft. The Air Force said the changes...top of those 35 aircraft, AMC has already...C-21As to the Air Force Flight Standards...

Article: OSD will support Air Force CAS/BAI F/A-16 request; doctrine change required new CAS/BAI aircraft. (Office of the Secretary of Defense, close air support/battlefield air interdiction)
Defense Daily;  November 30, 1990 ;     566 words ......Currently, the Air Force relies on the A-10 aircraft as a CAS tank...New CAS/BAI Aircraft The official...1970s, the Air Force supported...thrusts by aircraft into enemy territory. The Air Force then needed an aircraft that could...

Article: U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force Order 59 T-6A Texan II Aircraft.
PR Newswire;  April 3, 2001 ;     368 words ......The Navy will receive 24 aircraft and the Air Force will receive 35 aircraft...the year 2017, and the Air Force 454 aircraft. Of the 167 production...Operating Capability with 15 aircraft at Moody Air Force Base (Ga.) is on track...

Article: Air Force spends $130 million in withheld payments on C-17. (aircraft)
Defense Daily;  November 13, 1990 ;     389 words ......PAYMENTS ON C-17 The Air Force has paid C-17 transport aircraft developer McDonnell...company's Douglas Aircraft subsidiary, told...Friday that the Air Force will reevaluate...month, when the Air Force will release FY '90 funding for four aircraft.

Article: Air Force Approves Raytheon's T-6A Trainer For Full-Rate Production.(United States. Air Force contract with Raytheon Aircraft Co.)(Brief Article)
Defense Daily;  December 5, 2001 ;     284 words ...The Air Force on Monday approved...T-6A Joint Primary Aircraft Training System...to replace the Air Force's T-37B and Navy's T-34C aircraft. The T-6A is powered...April 19). The Air Force said yesterday that the aircraft has met all 14...

Article: Ralston: Air Force to solve F-16 shortfall in FY '98 budget.(Air Force Air Combat Command Commander Gen. Joseph Ralston on F-16 fighter aircraft financing)
Defense Daily;  November 3, 1995 ;     436 words ......delivery of the JAST aircraft to the Air Force which causes the...fighter, and the Air Force's F-16, with similar aircraft that can do the...the Navy and the Air Force had different requirements for the JAST aircraft, it is possible...

Article: New Aircraft Top Air Force's $16.9 Billion Unfunded Priorities List For FY '08.
Defense Daily;  February 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Rounding out the 39 aircraft at the top of the list, the Air Force asks for five CV...Request are the same aircraft, she said. The Air Force used the UPL to reemphasize...Request are the same aircraft, she said. The Air Force is reinforcing the...

Article: AIR FORCE GROUNDING AIRCRAFT FOR TRAINING; DECISION WILL MEAN SCREENING PILOT HOPEFULS AT CIVILIAN SCHOOLS.(NEWS)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  September 12, 1998 ;     498 words ......Press One of the Air Force's primary training aircraft will be grounded...that forces the Air Force to screen prospective...planes - three Air Force Academy cadets...putting all the aircraft into a ``minimal...entering full-fledged Air Force pilot ...

Article: Defense Watch.(Air Force to install digital radios, Aircraft tanker program, human deception to be detected by Air Force developed software suits)
Defense Daily;  October 16, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Mobility Command. Air Force mobility aircraft take hits from ground...command says 236 Air Force cargo and tanker aircraft have been shot with...despite some damage, no aircraft has been lost. Tanker Fest. The Air Force is hosting a four-d...