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  • Summer flying programs achieving success despite thunderstorms, setbacks

    Since early June, summer Airmanship training here has been in full swing, allowing 935 cadets to get experience in soaring, powered flight and parachute operations.Under the 306th Flying Training Group, the course completion rate for the Academy's soaring program is near 100 percent, and its number

  • New flying course exposes cadets to aircraft, airfield operations

    Cadets are now getting hands-on flying experience, soaring 2,500 feet above ground level shortly after they arrive here.This semester, Airmanship 250, Introduction to Soaring, replaced Airmanship 251, Basic Soaring, to provide fourth class cadets their first exposure to Air Force aviation. During

  • UAS program launches cadet leadership opportunities

    Two Academy juniors will break ground for future cadets, leading and instructing Defense Department combat equipment on Academy soil.Cadets 2nd Class Cori Easter and Jacob Seabury will be the first cadet Small Unmanned Aircraft System Instructors and Evaluators in the Academy's UAS Airmanship

  • Powered flight program prepares prospective pilots

    Four T-53 Kadet aircraft line up on the taxiway leading to Runway 16. Inside each aircraft sits one cadet pilot and one instructor. They're the last group to fly for the day on Sept. 9. The weather, however, might cut their flights short. Maj. Nanette Menath, the 557th Flying Training Squadron's

  • 12th OG deputy wins dogfight with cancer, returns to flying status

    "Four hundred and eighty-five days ago, I was a squadron commander in the greatest flying squadron in the Air Force - the 435th Fighter Training Squadron. "I was on the top of my game and on top of the world. I was flying a great mission with great officers," said Col. David Drichta, 12th Operations

  • T-1 Jayhawk mod ushers in new era in CSO training, first for AF

    The 451st Flying Training Squadron completed the final step of a long journey when a T-1A Jayhawk modified for electronic warfare training took flight on an undergraduate syllabus sortie June 4. This is the first time in Air Force history an undergraduate aviation program has formally incorporated

  • 558th FTS hold first winging ceremony

    *Editor's note: for security reasons, some personnel are referred to by their first names*The 558th Flying Training Squadron held their first winging ceremony, May 3, for Undergraduate Remotely Piloted Aircraft Pilot Training.After graduation students receive aircraft specific training at the formal

  • 435th FTS and 12th OSS bring home AETC Top Ops Awards

    The 435th Fighter Training Squadron and 12th Operations Support Squadron were recognized as Air Education and Training Command Top Operations Squadrons for 2012. "We can all be proud of their outstanding accomplishments," said Col. David Morrissey, commander of the 12th Operations Group. "The 12th

  • 435th FTS and 12th OSS bring home AETC Top Ops Awards

    The 435th Fighter Training Squadron and 12th Operations Support Squadron were recognized as Air Education and Training Command Top Operations Squadrons for 2012. "We can all be proud of their outstanding accomplishments," said Col. David Morrissey, commander of the 12th Operations Group. "The 12th