• Bye-bye ‘Wise Guy’

    A team of Air Force maintainers spent four months prepping Wise Guy, a B-52 Stratofortress for flight. The bomber had been in storage at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group since 2008.

  • STEM Summer Passport Program returns at the Hill Aerospace Museum

    For the second-consecutive year, the education team at the Hill Aerospace Museum is offering a free STEM Summer Passport Program for youth age 8 and older. The program will occur weekly through August. Classes are offered at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and cover subjects such as

  • Load 'em up: F-35A from A to B? Ask Fanter

    AVIANO AIR BASE, Italy -- How do you pack an F-35A into a C-17? Or move nearly 300 Airmen, and all the equipment, to support 12 aircraft around Europe for two months? Or make sure you have enough of everything that you’ll need, and almost nothing that you don’t?For nearly 5 years at Hill Air Force

  • Agile BOLT maintenance team supports F-35A deployment

    AVIANO AIR BASE, Italy – Maintainers in an innovative 388th Maintenance Group program have taken two huge steps while developing a program that continues to push and streamline F-35A Lightning II sustainment.These “BOLT” maintainers are currently deployed alongside the 421st Aircraft Maintenance

  • “What changed?” fire extinguisher campaign

    What changed?” This is the most common question Fire & Emergency Services (F&ES) firefighters have fielded since 2017 when we began removing fire extinguishers from approved facilities at Hill Air Force Base.