South Dakota. The Air Force has removed initial height requirements for all aviator applicants, in an effort to encourage more women and minority airmen to try to become pilots. (Regina Garcia Cano/AP)
The Air Force has loosened its restrictions on body fat for new recruits, one of the latest moves to grow the pool of potential applicants amid the military’s recruiting crisis. In the past, men and women’s bodies needed to be 20% or 28% fat, respectively, to be eligibl...
and required steps.The Nigerian Air Force will announce the date when the Airmen / Airwomen Recruitment Exercise for the year will commence. The deadline for the Registration will also be communicated at the same time as the release of application forms. NAF recruitment ...
This paper covers Air Force requirements and future needs for nondestructive evaluation in composite materials. Although composites have received only limited use in current airframe structures, vertical and horizontal stabilizers of fighter aircraft for example, aircraft on the drawing board or in testing...
All women. Yet any sense of oddity must rest with observers. For today’s Air Force and aerospace programs accept women air crew as a norm and their integration as complete as manning requirements and the public mood allows. Advertisement ...
Love was named the commander of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron, "WAFS", which was based at Newcastle Army Air Base, Delaware, United States. The typical WAFS pilot had 1,400 hours of flight time and had 30 hours of Army training (mostly administrative details). Requirements of the...
“It is a hidden barrier with multiple layers,” said Lt. Col. Jessica Ruttenber, an Air Force mobility planner and a leader of the Women’s Initiative Team that advocated for the change in anthropometric standards. “People are trying to do th...
aircraft, the passenger cabin of which in this case will be used for the placement of additional fuel tanks. This is an established and serially produced type, on which the fuel supply of the tanker variant could exceed 60 tons, that will fully guarantee the requirements of tactical aviation....
One can point for instance to the Canadian military’s attempt in recent times to institute a common uniform to be worn by members of the air force, army, and navy. Probably cheaper and certainly emphasizing the importance of joint operations in the present age, the attempt at uniformity was...
Air Force leaders sought to increase overall agility so that system enhancements could be deployed more frequently, positively impacting front line warfighters. Given the mission-critical nature of this system, the Air Force had stringent requirements for security and disaster recovery. They selected Mic...