• Love for flying kept last KC-135 flight engineer flying for decades

    After a career that has spanned almost four decades, the last Air Force flight engineer for the KC-135 Stratotanker is set to retire at Edwards. Master Sgt. Robert Self joined the U.S. Marine Corps in November 1978 and will wrap up his military career next month as a full-time Air Force reservist

  • Edwards boom operators set sight on future KC-46 testing

    Earlier this year in Everett, Washington, workers from the 418th Flight Test Squadron, Detachment 1, and Boeing teamed to achieve major test milestones for the KC-46 Pegasus aerial refueling tanker, which resulted in the Department of Defense authorizing initial production in August.   Going forward

  • 10th Flight Test Squadron: troublemakers on a mission

    Confident from daily encounters with danger and thousands of hours flying military and civilian aircraft, the pilots and crews of the 10th Flight Test Squadron also happen to be the biggest troublemakers on Tinker Air Force Base.They'd be out of a job if they weren't.The 38-member Air Force Reserve

  • Robins to gain new mission, 339th to expand with E-8C air crew

    There are a few job openings in the 339th Flight Test Squadron at Robins.If you're specifically looking to continue a flying career aboard the E-8C's Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System, also based here, there's an opportunity to do just that.The flight test squadron's mission will expand

  • Flight test squadron settles in at former alert facility

    There's new life inside Bldg. 12. It isn't every day a dynamic operational flying squadron here moves into a newly-renovated historical building - with ties to the Cold War - and just steps from the Robins flight line.Its new occupants are members of the 339th Flight Test Squadron, which includes a

  • AFRC pilot lauded for emergency landing at Hill

    Quick thinking and good communication not only saved a $13 million aircraft and its pilot, it also averted a possible tragedy close to Hill Air Force Base.On Jan. 10, 2014, Lt. Col. James "G-Man" Doyle, an Air Force Reserve pilot with the 514th Flight Test Squadron, was taking off on a functional

  • Check 1, 2, 3... C-5M completes ground checks, goes airborne same day

    A C-5M Super Galaxy which had undergone programmed depot maintenance at the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex recently experienced a rare set of events prior to its return to home station.Test pilots and flight engineers from the 339th Flight Test Squadron performed a landing gear skid check on

  • Commentary: Diamond in the rough, commander shares 514th FLTS mission

    Many Utahns have seen the A-10, F-16, F-22, F-35 and C-130 aircraft flying around Hill AFB, Utah and the Ogden-Salt Lake City area from time to time. What you may or may not realize is that the majority of these aircraft are flown by the pilots and aircrew of the 514th Flight Test Squadron, 413th

  • Randolph reservists ensure health of T-38 fleet

    Air Force reservists assigned to Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph plays a vital role in ensuring the aging T-38 Talon - Air Education and Training Command's primary jet trainer - remains mission-ready.The 415th Flight Test Flight, part of the 413th Flight Test Group Air Force Reserve unit at Robins