June 27, 2022 Air Force selects future aircrew helmet The Air Force selected LIFT Airborne Technologies in April to continue with prototype development of a new helmet for Air Force fixed-wing aircrew. Air Combat Command initiated the search for a next-generation helmet to address issues with long-term neck and back injuries, optimize aircraft
March 17, 2022 Reserve Airman makes history with first USAF-piloted eVTOL vehicle flight Just south of his home in Brooklyn, New York, a young Terrence McKenna spent much of his childhood in Prospect Park tossing around wooden gliders and flying remote-controlled airplanes, each aircraft more complex and capable than the last.By the early 2000s, McKenna came across an ad for flying
March 22, 2021 AFWERX crowns 2021 Spark Tank winner The Spark Tank event allows Airmen to offer improvements and solutions to the problems they face in everyday operations.
Nov. 6, 2020 Around the Air Force: Agile Flag 21-1, re-designed G-Suits, and Testing the Minuteman III Today’s look Around the Air Force highlights Air Combat Command’s “Agile Flag” exercise, incorporating the “Lead Wing” concept for agile combat employment, a test run of modified Advanced Technology Anti-Gravity Suit “G-suits” for female pilots, and an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test
July 6, 2020 Spark Tank 2021 encourages leadership to support Airmen ideas Spark Tank, a collaboration between AFWERX and Deputy Under Secretary of the Air Force, Management, is now accepting submissions for the 2021 campaign from July 1 to October 16.
Jan. 18, 2018 First AFWERX storefront opens in Las Vegas Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson, along with guest of honor Vice President Mike Pence as well as the Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. David L. Goldfein, opened the AFWERX-Vegas storefront Jan. 11 at the Howard Hughes Center in Las Vegas.