The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Engineering Directorate hosted the 20th annual Wright-Patterson Pumpkin Chuck on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024.
Teams ranging from local high school students to professional Air Force engineers competed to hurl pumpkins and squashes using catapults, trebuchets and human-powered devices. Some teams were able to send gourds thousands of feet along a runway beside the National Museum of the United States Air Force.
The 2024 Pumpkin Chuck included a STEM area where visitors learned about the physics of the machines and the Combined Federal Campaign. (U.S. Air Force video by Joe Danielewicz)
“Until the B-21 is fielded, the B-2 is the world’s only long-range penetrable strike bomber and the only aircraft that can do what we need it to do today,”
Col. Francis Marino, B-2 System Program Manager within the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center's Bombers Directorate.
HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Ma. – Kessel Run’s senior materiel leader recently reenforced the criticality of its mission sets in delivering the DAF BATTLE NETWORK.
The Department of the Air Force’s Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications and Battle Management is celebrating its 2-year anniversary today.
“I am immensely proud of our team’s ruthless focus and unwavering commitment to our mission,” said Maj. Gen. Luke Cropsey, C3BM program executive officer.