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Super arrival

HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. – A heat shield for the Orion spacecraft is unloaded from NASA’s Super Guppy aircraft on the flightline March 27. The heat shield is being delivered to Textron Defense Systems in Wilmington, Mass., to have a protective coating applied to it. (U.S. Air Force photo by Mark Herlihy)

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Teaming with Test Tanker II

HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. -- Personnel from the Senior Leadership C3 System - Airborne Communications Program office line up in front of a modified KC-135 known as Test Tanker II June 30. The program team will use Test Tanker II to test standardized command, control and communications (C3) equipment that will be incorporated on a special fleet of aircraft used to transport senior U.S. officials. (USAF Photo by Rick Berry)

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Under a 707

Patrick Dagle, director, 751st Electronic Systems Group, looks at a 707 aircraft that has been used for parts reclamation at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG), Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz. AMARG personnel removed a keel beam from the aircraft for an Electronic Systems Center Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) Senior Year Electro-optical Reconnaissance System (SYERS-3) program demonstration. (Courtesy photo)

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Valentine's greeting from Mother Nature

One of Hanscom’s static displays, an F-86 Sabre, ‘flies’ through the winter mix that blanketed the base Wednesday during a nor’easter. The Valentine’s Day weather postponed base readiness training and sent many employees home early. (US Air Force Photo by Mark Wyatt)

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