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  • A row of parked T-38 Talon aircraft in the foreground and a row of T-1 Jayhawk aircraft in the background sit on the ramp at Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, New Orleans, Aug. 9, 2019, during FAIP Flag. Instructor pilots from all over the country fly in to participate in the event, including pilots who have moved on from being instructor pilots. (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Gared Chapman)

    Team BLAZE triumphs over the competition at 2019 FAIP flag championship

    Columbus Air Force Base sent about 65 pilots to this year’s FAIP Flag competition from Aug. 9-11, hosted at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base, New Orleans, where they won overall best performance amongst all the competitions held.
  • Maintenance being done on an AT-6 Texan. When the Air Force became a separate service, it consolidated pilot training from three phases- primary, basic and advanced-to two phases- basic and advanced, which later became known as the primary and basic phases.

    Aviation Day: A time to celebrate the evolution of flight

    The development of aviation has changed the way of life for many around the globe and has played a critical role in the military and the U.S.'s success in wars and conflicts throughout the decades; aviation has had such as significant impact that President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Aug. 19, National Aviation Day, as a federal holiday in 1939.
  • Maj. Saily Rodriguez, the Human Systems Program Office female fitment program manager, sits in a T-38 Talon while Maj. Ryan Claussen, 50th Flying Training Wing chief of instructor pilots, climbs a ladder, July 12, 2019, on Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi. Rodriguez went on the incentive flight to test the equipment and to try out a disposable urinary relief device called the Traveljohn.

    Columbus provides better outlook on aircrew flight equipment

    Maj. Saily Rodriguez, the Systems Program Office (SPO) female fitment program manager, and Maj. Christianne Opresko, HAF/A3 (Headquarters Air Force/Operations) chief aircrew support branch and chief of staff for the Air force Physiological Episodes Action Team, visited Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi, July 11-12 to address some aircrew flight equipment concerns.
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