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Air Force Plans Second Light-Attack Aircraft Experiment

Air Force Plans Second Light-Attack Aircraft Experiment
Two Afghan Air Force A-29 Super Tucanos fly over Kabul in 2016. (U.S. Air Force photo)

The U.S. Air Force intends to conduct a second phase of experiments with light-attack aircraft this spring and summer, the service said Feb. 2.The Air Force said in a statement that the second round will take place from May to July at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona and involve “the two most promising” aircraft it used in last year’s flight demonstration: the AT-6 Wolverine turboprop from Textron [TXT] Aviation Defense and the A-29 Super Tucano turboprop from Sierra Nevada…

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