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  • TINKER HISTORY: Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter Aircraft

    The Boeing C-97 “Stratofreighter” was designed as a four-engine cargo and troop transport using components and design features from two previous Boeing designs, the B-29 and B-50 bombers, to make an entirely new transport aircraft. The large “pinched” fuselage is formed by taking two B-29 fuselage

  • Real ID Act enforcement to begin July 10

    The state of Oklahoma has been on a limited extension for the REAL ID Act from the Department of Homeland Security through June 6. Unless an additional extension is granted by DHS, enforcement of the REAL ID Act will begin for Oklahoma IDs July 10. On that date a current, non-compliant Oklahoma ID

  • TINKER HISTORY: Boeing AGM- 84A/D ‘Harpoon’ missile

    The AGM-84A/D Air Launch Cruise Missile is an air breathing missile capable of sustaining high subsonic flight using Global Positioning System/Inertial Navigation System guidance. The missile was originally developed for the U.S. Navy capable of being launched from land, submarines and surface ships

  • Jessica Cox: ‘Thinking outside the shoe’

    Combing your hair, washing your face, getting dressed or even keeping your balance. Surfing, obtaining a black belt in tae kwon do and scuba diving. All are things we utilize, even “require,” two arms and two hands for. To an ordinary individual, that’s the norm, that’s what we know.For Jessica Cox,

  • TINKER HISTORY: Boeing E-3 Sentry

    The Boeing E-3 Sentry is a special mission aircraft built around a highly-modified Boeing Model 707-320 commercial airliner. The Airborne Warning and Control System, or AWACS, is essentially a powerful airborne search and track radar system using a rotating dome affixed 11 feet above the top of the

  • STARBASE: Supporting STEM in schools with mentoring

    Mentors from Tinker Air Force Base participated in a STARBASE 2.0 graduation ceremony with Carl Albert Middle School on April 19.STARBASE 2.0 is a mentoring program emphasizing science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. Targeting sixth, seventh and eighth grade students, STARBASE

  • TINKER HISTORY: Beechcraft AT-11

    The Beechcraft AT-11 is one of many variants of the popular Model 18 introduced by Beechcraft in 1937. The Model 18 and over 25 variants feature an all-metal design in the form of a low-wing monoplane, twin engines, cantilever tail with twin vertical tails and rudders. The aircraft sits on two main

  • TINKER HISTORY: Republic F-84 Thunderjet fighter

    The Republic F-84 Thunderjet was a single-seat day fighter designed around an all-metal wing positioned low to mid fuselage. The single-engine jet sat on tricycle landing and lacked a radar which limited it tactically to daylight operations. The first flight of the XP-84 took place in Feb. 1946. The

  • Tinker plants 50 native trees for Arbor Day

    Mother Nature couldn’t have sent a better sign of approval to the 15 or so volunteers gathered recently to plant new trees at Tinker Air Force Base.Before a redbud sapling was even unloaded from the bed of a pickup, a lone bumblebee was already dancing in the air around its tiny pink

  • Army Ammunition Plant hosts Oklahoma Commanders Summit

    Senior leaders from military installations across the state converged on the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant last week for the third installment of the Oklahoma Commanders Summit.The biannual summits provide an opportunity to get senior leaders from around the state together in one location and are