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The route would be a two-way corridor for ships to travel between the northern edge of the Bering Strait and the US-Canada maritime border.
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An F-35 fighter jet crashed at Eielson Air Force Base back in January because water-contaminated hydraulic fluid caused an ice buildup in the plane’s landing gear. That’s the conclusion of a panel of experts who compiled a report on the crash that was issued Tuesday by Eielson’s higher headquarters, the Pacific Air Forces.
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The state agency that’s heading-up an effort to develop a veterans cemetery in Salcha achieved another milestone recently with completion of a draft environmental assessment of the project. The document includes the Alaska Interior Veterans Cemetery’s master plan.
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Pentagon officials have revived a proposal to develop a small nuclear power plant on Eielson Air Force Base.
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A Korean F-16 fighter plane crashed on takeoff from Eielson Air Force Base late Tuesday afternoon. The aircrew ejected and were taken to the hospital.
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Aircraft maintenance crews from Alaska and South Korea have repaired a U.S. F-16 fighter jet that made an emergency landing last week on a remote island in the Bering Sea. The jet flew out of St. Paul Island Thursday en route to Eielson Air Force Base.
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Two South Korea-based U.S. fighter jets en route to Eielson Air Force Base made an emergency landing Monday on a remote island in the Bering Sea.
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Air Force investigators released a report Tuesday on what caused the pilot of Eielson-based F-16 fighter jet to declare an in-flight emergency shortly after takeoff last year.
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NewsThe organization said it doesn’t consider the incident to be a threat.
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Contractors dismantling Fort Greely’s old nuclear power plant have begun shipping scrap material from the project to a radioactive-waste storage site in Texas.
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NewsThe head of the union that represents civilian employees at Fort Wainwright and Fort Greely says at least a dozen workers have resigned, retired, been furloughed or laid off as part of the Trump administration’s effort to sharply reduce the federal workforce.
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The Air Force has removed two sites from a list of locations around the eastern Interior where the agency has proposed to build radar training facilities. The radar sites are intended to help train F-35 pilots from Eielson Air Force Base to detect and locate signals similar to those emitted by enemy surface-to-air missile facilities that the pilots might encounter in combat.