WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, March 16 -- The U.S. Air Force issued the following news: By Katie Milligan AFWERX Hank Griffiths and Maj. Jonathan Appleby, both Air Force pilots, flew BETA Technologies' electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, ALIA, as the first-ever Airmen to fly an electric aircraft with a military airworthiness, March 9. This milestone, which took place at BETA's Plattsburgh, New York, hangar and testing facility - just 35 miles from its South Burlington, Vermont, hea  more

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, March 15 -- The U.S. Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center issued the following news: By Marisa Alia-Novobilski Air Force Materiel Command Tiny in size, low cost and increasingly abundant, small unmanned aircraft systems pose a big threat to military operations and installations worldwide. As the Lead Command for Counter-sUAS efforts for the Air Force, a team of seven experts from the Air Force Materiel Command Air, Space and Cyberspace Operations Dire  more

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, March 16 -- The U.S. Air Force Wright-Patterson Air Force Base issued the following news: By Marisa Alia-Novobilski Air Force Materiel Command Tiny in size, low cost and increasingly abundant, small unmanned aircraft systems pose a big threat to military operations and installations worldwide. As the Lead Command for Counter-sUAS efforts for the Air Force, a team of seven experts from the Air Force Materiel Command Air, Space and Cyberspace Operations Directorate   more