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Air Force awards contract to M1 for T-38 maintenance by Sam Howard Washington (UPI) Aug 30, 2018 The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $23.4 million contract modification to M1 Support Services for maintenance on T-38 training aircraft. M1 Support Services, out of Denton, Texas, will specifically conduct intermediate and organizational maintenance on aircraft for Air Combat Command, Air Force Materiel Command and Air Force Global Strike Command, the Department of Defense said in a release. It will conduct work at a number of Air Force bases, with a Sept. 30, 2019, target date for completion. The Defense Department is obligating $23.4 million in fiscal 2019 operations and maintenance funds at the time of the award. The Air Force is in the midst of replacing its T-38C trainers at undergraduate pilot training bases with Advanced Pilot Trainers, known as T-X aircraft, but the new aircraft won't be delivered until at least 2022. In 2016, the Air Force reached a deal with Boeing to maintain the T-38 fleet through 2036.
Largest US aircraft in history: civil usage or military purposes? Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 28, 2018 A seven-year-long Stratolaunch project has been designed to launch satellites into outer space yet the airplane could reportedly prove itself useful for the intelligence community. On August, 20 US-based company Stratolaunch published a statement scheduling the first test flight in fall 2018 of the largest plane in terms of wingspan in the history of civil aviation. However, the plane's usage might not be strictly civilian, the journal Popular Mechanics says. The largest aircraft in the worl ... read more
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