The U.S. Air Force has been a crucial part of the U.S. military in numerous key moments in the history, such as the Vietnam War and the Afghanistan War. Engineering marvels such as the F-22 Raptor ...

The Boeing X-32 was an ambitious but unusual-looking contender in the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) competition—a program that ...

Boeing developed the X-32 as a technology demonstrator for the Joint Strike Fighter competition. Most aircraft incorporate features that qualify as conventionally attractive. Sometimes that tendency ...

The deadliest, according to Aviation Safety Network, came on Dec. 11, 1985, when 248 soldiers from the 101st Airborne ...

Previously we looked at the F-15 ACTIVE, an experimental program which set out to produce a workable thrust vectoring variant of the F-15B. The success of the ACTIVE program helped pave the way for ...

Collisions like the one between an American Airlines plane and a helicopter over the Potomac River in D.C. this week have led to changes in the way we travel.

(FAIRBANKS, ALASKA) -- An Air Force F-35 fighter jet crashed at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska on Tuesday as the pilot ejected safely, officials said.

Britain stepped up the production of fighter planes, building them faster than Germany. The Hurricanes, with their sturdy frames, took on the bombers. The Mark I Spitfires, with their superior ...

On December 19, 2019 an F-16 Fighting... Here’s What You Need To Remember: The most important attributes of future fighter aircraft will be long-range sensors, stealth, datalink network ...

SEOUL, Jan 28 (Reuters) - An Airbus (AIR.PA), opens new tab plane belonging to South Korean carrier Air Busan (298690.KS), opens new tab caught fire on Tuesday at Gimhae International Airport in ...

The fire service was alerted to the fire which began inside the plane just before 10:30 p.m., it said. South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said it began in the plane’s tail.

Westbound flights take longer, since planes are working against the jet stream. Air traffic controllers monitor the jet stream and tweak transatlantic routes accordingly each day. This time of ...