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  • Aspiring aviators can obtain height waiver to reach dreams

    Do you think you’re too short or too tall to become a pilot in the world’s greatest Air Force? Fear not, you may still have a chance. The Air Force is encouraging aspiring aviators who don’t meet height, or anthropometric, standards to continue to pursue their dreams of flying and apply for waivers

  • 80th FTW aviators get close-up view of combat aircraft

    Undergraduate pilot training students at the 80th Flying Training Wing's Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training program got an up close look at combat aircraft such as the A-10 Thunderbolt II, F-22 Raptor and F-15E Strike Eagle May 10-11, 2018, at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas.

  • Film to flying: Former producer finds new success in the sky

    Then Secretary of the Air Force, Deborah James, announced in 2016 that the Air Force could be short roughly 1,000 pilots over the next few years. When the buzz circulated to former film producer, now 2nd Lt. Aaron Doyle, he knew it was his time to serve.