June 21, 2019 Keep summer safe with tips for cars, recreational vehicles With summer around the corner the freedom to go on road trips, excursions on the lake, family fun on boats, camping sites galore, the list is endless. But safety should be foremost in any family summer event whether you’re road tripping it or just driving a few miles. Summer months are fraught with
June 20, 2019 Preventing heat illness Anyone exposed to high temperatures for a sustained period of time is at risk for heat-related illness. Heat-related illnesses, like heat exhaustion or heat stroke, happen when the body is not able to properly cool itself. The body normally cools itself by sweating. But under some conditions,
June 19, 2019 Aim High: Aero club flight instructor earns FAA award for half-century flawless flight The Federal Aviation Administration recently presented Hugh Holloway, Robins Aero Club assistant chief flight instructor, with its Federal Aviation Administration Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award. The award is presented to persons who have a minimum of fifty years of accident-free flying as a
June 18, 2019 Auto GCAS team presented with Collier Trophy The 416th and 461st Flight Test Squadrons along with Lockheed-Martin, the F-35 Joint Program Office, NASA and the Defense Safety Oversight Council received the prestigious 2018 Robert J. Collier Trophy, June 13, 2019, for the development and testing of the Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance
June 18, 2019 JBER Summer safety reminder As Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson’s Airmen, Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Coast Guardsmen, and their families enjoy barbecues, kayaking, riding bikes, and many other summer activities, it’s important that they never question proper risk management.
June 17, 2019 167th, Argos, USDA continue black vulture research Last year, the 167th Airlift Wing, Argos Cement Plant and the United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s Wildlife Services teamed up to research black vultures in and around Martinsburg, W.Va., in an effort to mitigate potential aviation hazards.
June 17, 2019 Unique partnership brings Smithsonian Institution to Kuwait A unique partnership between the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Smithsonian Institution is yielding results in reducing bird strikes, not just in Kuwait, but throughout the region.
June 13, 2019 Summer safety is back: how do you prepare? It doesn’t take much time to realize summer has struck New Mexico: high temperatures, a lot of sun, school is out, cow farms stinking just a little bit more than usual. Around Cannon AFB, Clovis and Portales, N.M., more people will be out and about playing sports, grilling out or even splashing in a
June 12, 2019 Air Force looks at faster, smarter hardware acquisition and big data to help solve T-6 OBOGS issues While many of the T-6 On-Board Oxygen Generating Systems issues are markedly better than last year, the Air Force is looking at ways to procure hardware upgrades like the enhanced OBOGS faster and smarter, increase basic science and research, and collect and apply new research data into acquisitions
June 11, 2019 Firefighters and Cable Dogs Save Lives MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. – Last summer, the Air Force suffered the loss of a civil engineer squadron Airman who was operating around an entry to a confined space in a deployed location. U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. John J. Allen the director of civil engineers, ordered that all civil engineer