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...Timothy Woodland was born in 1976, and grew up in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He enlisted in 1995, and, after a stint on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona, was shipped out to these islands four years ago. Woodland lived and worked on Kadena Air Force Base as a member of the Air Force 353rd Special Operations Group. His duty assignment was to select the best-suited aircraft to fly each mission scheduled at the base. His military record is unremarkable except for an achievement medal awarded in 1997. "He was a pretty quiet guy, and he was always playing...
...that is exactly what he did at high noon on Wednesday, April 2, 90 min. into an air exercise that left from Arizona's Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. He showed no signs of distress, signaled no one and failed to respond to a radio call from the lead aircraft on the mission. The missing plane, a heavily armored, low-and-slow-flying machine known as the Warthog, emitted no tracking pings because only the lead aircraft on an exercise uses its transponder. But Air Force officials have traced Button's flight 800 miles northeast from Arizona through a corner...
Thanks to last year's disarmament agreements with the former Soviet Union, 30 B-52 bombers are among the weapons that will be destroyed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. The demolition provides the FAA with a chance to learn how to design passenger airliners that are more resistant to terrorist explosives. "The B-52s are a real windfall," says Lyle Malotky, the FAA's scientific adviser for aviation security. "When we laid out this program two years ago, we didn't expect to have such resources...
...Davis-Monthan A.F.B., Tucson, Ariz...
...MONTHAN Altadena, Calif...