Luke Air Force Base Opens New Training Center

Luke Air Force Base Opens New Training Center

A 47 million dollar Academic Training Center opens this week at the Luke Airforce Base in Glendale, Arizona.  The training center is the Air Force’s flight school for the next generation fighter jet, the F-35.   Luke Airforce base is the biggest F-35 base of any sort world-wide.  It is also the premier location for a training center because of its good weather, similar desert terrain, and close proximity to the Barry M. Goldwater Range.

The Academic Training Center, has been given the acronym ATC. Before unfolding more about this multi million dollar ATC, let us tell you more about the F-35.

The F-35 is the most advanced fighter jet ever built and is the ultimate air defense system of the United States.  It costs just under $132 million per air craft to make.  The engines are made by Pratt &Whitney and planes are made by Lockheed Martin. The Pentagon says the F-35 combines superior acceleration, agility and maneuverability with unprecedented and integrated sensor, targeting and communication systems.  This is the ultimate fighting machine in the sky.

Now with the cost of each F-35 in mind, a 47 million dollar training center doesn’t sound too pricey.  And, this is the price we pay to wake up every day and know that our brave men and women of our country will be protecting us in places like Iraq, Syria, Africa, and the Philippines.

With an expensive aircraft, an expensive training facility hosting expensive equipment is required.  We fly the best. We need to train in the best facilities.

We discovered what the Air Force got for 47 million dollars.

• a two story building with 145,000 square feet
• a building made of stone and tinted glass
• it features rooflines that resemble airplane wings
• classrooms
• auditoriums
• administration space
• developed with an infrastructure to accommodate systems of communication
• bays for 12 computerized flight simulators