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The Department of the Air Force has selected Eielson Air Force Base for its first nuclear microreactor. A National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) assessment will begin by 2024. Microreactor testing and demonstration of power and steam is expected by year-end 2027. [35] [36]
A USAF B-36 bomber was flying a simulated combat mission from Eielson Air Force Base, near Fairbanks, Alaska, to Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas, carrying a Mark 4 nuclear bomb (minus a fissile core). After six hours of flight, the bomber experienced mechanical problems and was forced to shut down three of its six engines at an ...
Some were sent to General Dynamics for repairs. Due to the excessive cost of repairing all the aircraft, nine were placed in storage at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, in 1972. The 58th WRS, the last squadron in the Air Force to use the WB-57F Canberra, was inactivated on July 1, 1974, after placing its planes in storage at Davis-Monthan.
Shocking video captured an F-35 fighter jet plummeting onto the runway and bursting into flames during a training exercise at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska early Tuesday afternoon. The...
A US Air Force pilot safely escaped after an F-35 fighter jet crashed during a training mission at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska on Tuesday, officials said.
The flight did contain a "dummy capsule," a simulated container for a nuclear core (filled with lead), which was much later recovered. [2] Cold weather (−40 °F/−40 °C on the ground at Eielson AFB) adversely affected the aircraft involved in this exercise, and some minor difficulties with 44-92075 were noted before takeoff. Seven hours ...
An Air Force pilot is safe after ejecting out of an F-35 fighter jet that then crashed at the Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska on Tuesday. The incident occurred around 12:49 p.m. local time and ...
Dec. 12—Four additional KC-135 Stratotankers, the lynchpins of the U.S. military's aerial refueling operations, have been assigned to Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks, and with them around ...