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  • 10-year-old girl spends day as KC-10 pilot

    It was a foggy day in San Francisco when a 10-year-old girl flew a KC-10 Extender under the Golden Gate Bridge. Katie Powell, daughter of Senior Master Sgt. Chris Powell of the 60th Operations Group, was named Pilot for a Day May 19 and given an inside look at the daily life of pilots at Travis.

  • "Spirit of Berlin" a hit with air show spectators

    "The Spirit of Berlin" proved a big hit both literally and figuratively during the 2006 Berlin Air Show.When spectators entered the C-17 Globemaster III through the crew entry door, the typical reaction was to stop, stare in awe at the cavernous interior, and say, "Oh, my gosh!""You got that all

  • C-17 pilot receives Koren Kolligan Jr. Trophy

    The skies over West Texas on March 10, 2005, could have come right off a picture postcard: blue, cloudless and so clear you could see horizon to horizon.   It was, as one Air Force pilot put it, a perfect day for flying. Capt. Andreas Ix and his C-17 Globemaster III aircrew were participating in a

  • Air Mobility Command, Airlift/Tanker Association to host Technology Days 2006

    Air Mobility Command and the Airlift/Tanker Association have set May 8-10 for the third annual AMC Technology Days here. Technology Days provides industry representatives the opportunity to come to Scott and present briefings and demonstrations of their companies’ newest technologies directly to the

  • Travis cyclists pedal with the president

    When the person on the other end of the telephone line told Capt. James Weinstein to choose four of his mountain biking club’s best riders to join the president of the United States for a ride, he thought it was a joke. “I was like, 'Yeah right, who is this really?'” he said. However, after the

  • Desert duty: crew chiefs keep C-130s flying

    No one wishes for an aircraft to break, especially flying crew chiefs. But, that's when the mobile C-130 maintainers receive the most attention - when something is wrong with the plane, and they are far away from home. "Fortunately, C-130s are extremely reliable," said Senior Master Sgt. Edward

  • AMC welcomes new command chief master sergeant

    Opportunity, service, patriotism. Those are words Chief Master Sergeant Joseph Barron lives by, and they are themes he’ll share with Airmen as he travels base to base as the newest command chief master sergeant for the Air Mobility Command. Chief Barron reported for duty with AMC April 10 after a

  • Officials release C-5 crash survivor list

    Air Force officials released the names of the 17 survivors of the C-5 Galaxy crash here April 3. Survivor names, base and medical conditions are as follows: Capt. Brian Lafreda, Dover, fair Lt. Col. Robert Moorman, Dover, fair Lt. Col. Harland Nelson, Dover, fair Master Sgt. Timothy Feiring, Dover,

  • Humanitarian relief remains constant priority

    In a turbulent world, with natural disasters striking at random and conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan surging with the tide of terrorist violence, one thing has remained constant – United States Air Force humanitarian relief operations. These operations, planned out of the Combined Air Operations

  • Commanders drive final rivets into Travis C-17

    Commanders from Travis Air Force Base, Calif., got the honor of driving the final rivets into the base’s new C-17 Globemaster III jet transport during a ceremony at the Boeing plant in Long Beach, Calif., March 17. Brig. Gen. Thomas Gisler Jr., 349th Air Mobility Wing commander, and Col. Timothy