Maj. Sarah Spy has wanted to be a pilot since she was a little girl. Now, at 37, she has become the first female flight instructor pilot for the Nevada Air National Guard.
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The Bureau of Land Management is gathering public input on plans to more than triple the size of the Navy training range near Fallon by cutting off public access to almost 770,000 acres of federal land.
A Nellis Air Force Base rescue helicopter crashed Aug. 18 because the pilot over-corrected after a gunner warned that a trailing helicopter was closing too fast during a night training exercise, Air Combat Command said Thursday.