Michael Lowrey reports for Carolina Journal Online on potential changes for the military aircraft flying over Charlotte. Roy Cordato’s Daily Journal debunks a common myth about self-funded political campaigns.
To fight ISIS. Per CNN: A pair of nearly 50-year-old planes has been brought out of retirement to fight ISIS. The Vietnam-era OV-10 Bronco turbo-propeller planes are part of an…
Lockheed Martin is going to develop a civilian version of its C-130J military cargo plane. Don’t laugh, the company sold over 100 commercial versions of earlier-generation C-130s. And anything that…
And that would be a problem. As Flightglobal reports: The Pentagon’s decision to reduce the performance specifications for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will have a significant operational…
The F-35, the U.S.’s next generation fighter aircraft for the Air Force, Marines, and Navy — each are scheduled to get their own customized version — continues to have have…
On July 28, 2010, a US Air Force C-17 cargo plane crashed while practicing for an airshow at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska. All four crew on board were killed…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appears to be, too.? Since Nancy Pelosi took over as Speaker in 2006, she’s rung up millions in military travel expenses to commute between San Francisco…
OK, so the 94th Airlift Wing theory is out the window. Dobbins AFB relates that it has no idea who was flying a Cobra, a Huey, and five Chinooks over…
Anyone else in South Charlotte get buzzed by flights of Marine choppers between 11am and noon? First was a flight of three, one each of a Huey, a Cobra, and…
The current campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan are expensive affairs and are complicating the DoD’s budget decisions. Expect some significant reductions in what the Pentagon can afford to buy over…