AFMC Command News

  • AFMC announces enlisted annual award winners

    It had the makings of a Hollywood awards show - bright lights, red carpet, video clips, a live band, a sit-down dinner and attendees dressed to the nines. But this event also included a color guard, saber arch and a static collection of attack, bomber, cargo, fighter and experimental aircraft

  • Research lab runners participate in Army marathon

    Army-Air Force interactions are alive and well, at least for a team of runners who participated in a marathon March 25 at the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range. Runners from the Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., made the four-hour drive to the Army range to

  • SkyTote to demonstrate high-speed flight with vertical takeoff

    Air Force Research Laboratory scientists are working on a novel unmanned air vehicle called SkyTote that will take off and land vertically like a helicopter, but also transition into horizontal flight like a conventional aircraft. SkyTote's primary mission to deliver a payload to a specific point

  • Airman 'wheels' for fortune

    An Edwards Airman got a chance to spin her "wheels" for a fortune Feb. 8. Senior Airman Victoria Dougherty, 412th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron F-16 avionics system specialist, participated in the "Wheel of Fortune - Wheel Salutes the Armed Forces" edition, set to air the first week of April, and

  • AFMC civilian course gains other commands' interest

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFMCNS) - Representatives from three commands plan to meet with Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command professional development staff here in May to discuss adapting the AFMC Orientation Course for their commands. Leadership from the three commands, Air

  • WWII pilot finally receives Distinguished Flying Cross

    It was Sept. 26, 1944, and 1st. Lt. Ralph Davis, who'd just finished a run hauling gasoline in his B-24 "Southern Clipper", thought he might relax on the way home. Only this trip turned out to be a little more demanding than the usual gas run. A pilot with the 467th Bombardment Group, based at

  • Photos of genocide survivors earn Airman top award

    There is another side to the Air Force, far beyond the horizon that is peppered with aircraft defending the nation's skies. Tucked within neatly divided cubicles on bases all over the world are individuals responsible for maintaining and processing vital information and, in some cases, disseminating

  • Program helps information branch improve fitness

    Information Technology Directorate personnel are putting the "IT" in fitness at Tinker Air Force Base. In groups and as individuals, they are walking, working out in the gym or participating in structured fitness activities with encouragement from directorate and base leadership to get involved in

  • Manufacturing Technology program reduces B-2 maintenance time

    Engineers from the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, working with the B-2 Systems Group and material processing experts, solved a critical material scale-up problem that directly affected the operational maintainability, and therefore combat availability, of the Air Force's B-2 bomber fleet.

  • Global Hawk 'sets sail' from Edwards

    A Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle known as N-1 took off from Edwards' main runway March 27 on a one-way mission to Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. The N-1, an RQ-4A Global Hawk - one of two acquired by the U.S. Navy through the Global Hawk Maritime Demonstration Program - is the first of

  • C-130s stage at Kirtland AFB to answer firefighting call

    The rancher fearing for his livestock or the people living in developed areas along the boundary of a fire probably don't realize the massive effort and the number of personnel supporting the C-130 they see dropping salvation from the sky, but cooperation among military members and civilians can

  • Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel 9 reaches 3,000-run milestone

    March 15 marked an important milestone for one of Arnold Engineering Development Center's world-unique test assets. The Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel 9, located at AEDC's White Oak near Silver Spring, Md., completed its 3,000th test run as the facility approaches 30 years of operation. The first test,

  • Uniformed Services benefit from flight nurse course

    They represent the changing face of military training, medical professionals such as U.S. Public Health Service officer Charles McGee and Navy Lieutenant Shawn Passons, who have come here as part of a U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine initiative. Together with classmates from the Air Force

  • DoD selects five AFMC bases for health and safety initiative

    The Air Force isn’t waiting for the Memorial Day weekend start of the “101 Critical Days of Summer” to emphasize health and safety to its work force. Nine Air Force bases are scheduled to participate in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Voluntary Protection Program this year. Five