Nursing can be a physically taxing job – particularly when it comes to patient transfers – and it's over-represented in workplace injury statistics. With the nursing workforce getting older, and more ...

At the beginning of the airlift, the conventional wisdom on both the Allied and Soviet sides was that Berlin could not be supplied indefinitely by air, that it would only be a matter of time before ...

The US airlift fleet has a readiness problem for a modern war, an airpower expert argues in a new paper. The size, age, and lack of variety in aircraft could hinder the Air Force's plan to operate in ...

Though it had no official name, the American air evacuation from Kabul, Afghanistan, was one of the largest such operations in history. Over the course of 16 flight days, U.S. forces alone ferried out ...

Poland prioritizes airlift, aerial refueling, force multipliers and cost-effective platforms to sustain air operations in a ...

Back in 1908, Thomas Edison was asked for his opinion on the Wright brothers’ aeroplane. The electrical wizard pooh-poohed the Wrights’ achievement. “No aeroplane would be good”, he said, “until it ...

Humanitarian assistance has become a political football. It took months of bitter debate before Congress passed a critical $95 billion package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan in late April, providing ...

February 4-11: President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchilll, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet at Yalta and confirm a plan to divide both Germany and the city of Berlin ...

Startup Spotlight profiles tech startups in the Pacific Northwest. by Monica Nickelsburg on Jun 23, 2016 at 3:00 pm June 22, 2016 at 11:33 am Airlift co-founders Minda Brusse and Sandeep Phadke ...

The US airlift fleet for moving troops, weapons, and critical supplies around the world is shrinking and growing older — a dangerous trend that could leave the military in a tight spot if war were to ...