Air Force Grounds Osprey Fleet Indefinitely After Recent 'Safety Incidents' Air Force Special Operations Command has stopped all flights for its entire fleet of CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft, citing...
A String of Mishaps Shows How Tricky It Can Be to Keep the Aircraft on Aircraft Carriers The past year has been hard on the carrier aviation community.
Everything You Need to Know About the A-10 'Warthog' Thunderbolt II The Warthog, Hawgs, Thunderbolt II -- whatever you call it, it's the Air Force's flying tank. It's both beloved by ground...
How the US Military Ended Japanese Air Dominance by Destroying the Legend of the Zero At the start of World War II, Japan's Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter was the most vaunted and feared weapon in the enemy arsenal...
Black Female U-2 Pilot Broke Barriers on the Ground and in the Air Air Force Col. Merryl Tengesdal started out in the Navy flying helicopters but ended up becoming the first Black woman to fly...
E-2D Hawkeye, Navy’s Airborne Early Warning Place, Gets Spotlight in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ With its giant flying saucer-like rotating radar dome, the Hawkeye is an odd-looking and ungainly plane.
D-Day Story: Malcolm Edwards I was a bombardier on the B-26 Nick's Chick in the 344th bomb group, 495th squadron. The following are the recollections that...
The Story of How the Soviets Shot Down US Pilot Francis Gary Powers In 1960, the Soviet Union shot down a lone American flying at 80,000 feet above its cities. The secret mission was to gather...
America's First Jet Ace Displayed His Flying Skills in Three Wars Col. James Jabara, who once ate 20 carrots a day to improve his eyesight, was hailed as America's first jet ace and, by some...
The US Air Force's Bid to Develop Nuclear-Powered Aircraft At the height of the Cold War, U.S. Air Force scientists dreamed of a fleet of nuclear-powered aircraft. They almost made it...
Army Dramatically Expands Combat Patch Eligibility The policy shift, issued last week, covers soldiers who served in Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon...
Plans for Mass VA Firings Scuttled, But Department Still Expects 30,000 Employees to Leave on Their Own The announcement walked back previous plans, first revealed in a leaked memo in March, to fire as many as 83,000 employees as...
Colonel Retaliated Against Major for Talking to Congress About Red Hill Contamination, Report Says The report said that investigators substantiated an allegation that an Air Force colonel had retaliated against Army Maj...
Air Force Academy Cutting 140 Positions; Majors Affected? As the Air Force works to cut 5,000 positions before October, the Air Force Academy expects to eliminate 140 jobs.
Mystery on Pacific Seafloor Proves to Be Part of Daring WWII Saga, US Navy Says A mysterious object spotted on the South Pacific seafloor has been identified as the bow of a torpedoed World War II ship...