AWACS Support
OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM -- An E-3 Sentry Air Warning and Control System aircraft is prepared for takoff in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. The E3 aircrews will monitor and control a package of aircraft escorting C-17 transport planes flying humanitarian airlift missions into eastern Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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AWACS Support
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Preparing the Pave Low
OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM -- Airman 1st Class “Joshua,” an MH-53J Pave Low III helicopter crew chief from the 16th Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field, Fla., cleans the exterior of an aircraft at an Operation Enduring Freedom location. The MH-53 is the largest, most powerful and technologically advanced helicopter in the Air Force inventory. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Scott Reed)
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Globemaster lift
OPERATION ENDURING FREEDON -– Airmen from the 16th Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field, Fla., offload a MH-53J Pave Low III helicopter from a C-17A Globemaster III at an Operation Enduring Freedom location. The C-17 can carry nearly every type of Air Force and Army air-transportable equipment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Scott Reed)
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Globemaster lift
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F-15E mission start
An F-15E Strike Eagle from 48th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron departs on a mission to enforce the northern no-fly zones over Northern Iraq. Strike Eagles fly radar suppression and radar-jamming mission over the northern no-fly zones. Two F-15E's fired four laser-guided bombs destroying Iraqi surface-to-air missile sites. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Vincent Parker)
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F-15E mission ...
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Flight test
Lt. Col. Paul Smith of the Air Force and X-35 Chief Test Pilot Tom Morgenfeld each flew the X-35C. Both had flown the similar X-35A extensively during that plane's fight-test program. (Courtesy photo)
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Flight test
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X-35C Joint Strike Fighter
Lockheed Martin's X-35C Joint Strike Fighter touches down at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Dec. 18, 2000, after its first flight. The carrier variant JSF will be tested at Edwards and Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. (Courtesy photo by Judson Brohmer)
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Joint Strike fighter
Lockheed Martin's Joint Strike Fighter concept demonstrator, the X-35A, broke the sound barrier Nov. 21, 2000, at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The X-35A has finished flight testing and now is being re-fitted in nearby Palmdale to become the X-35B. (Courtesy photo by Tom Reynolds)
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Joint Strike fighter
Lockheed Martin's X-35A Joint Strike Fighter Concept demonstrator broke the sound barrier Nov. 21, 2000, just 25 hours and 25 test flights into its airborne program at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The X-35A is being re-fitted into the X-35B and has begun ground testing in preparation for its short takeoff/vertical landing demonstrations. (Courtesy photo by Tom Reynolds)
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Raptor's 100th mission
F-22 Raptor 4001, the first of the Air Force's next-generation of air superiorty fighter jets, flew its 100th mission at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., with Boeing test pilot Chuck Killberg at the controls. The F-22 is undergoing the most extensive and sophisticated testing of any combat aircraft ever developed, giving the Air Force and its industry partners adequate time to properly design, build and test the Raptor before being put into production. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Blue skies ahead
A B-2 Spirit bomber supports NATO operations in 2002. Air Force B-2 Spirits are used to deliver Joint Direct Attack Munitions. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Blue skies ahead
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Into the blue
FILE PHOTO -- The B-2 Spirit bomber is a multi-role bomber capable of delivering both conventional and nuclear munitions. A dramatic leap forward in technology, the bomber represents a major milestone in the U.S. bomber modernization program. The B-2 brings massive firepower to bear, in a short time, anywhere on the globe through previously impenetrable defenses. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Rose Reynolds)
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Into the blue
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Open flight
A B-2 Spirit bomber flies across an open stretch of sky. The B-2 Spirit is a multi-role bomber capable of delivering both conventional and nuclear munitions. (U.S. Air Force photo/Gary Ell)
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Open flight
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