Fighter pilots are in constant proximity to their own mortality. All servicemembers face these thoughts to some extent—but pilots are unique in that they usually face them alone. The physical dangers ...

Arthur Van Haren Jr. was one of the top fighter pilots of WWII. He also was my grandfather. I called him “Tata,” a nickname for grandfather in Spanish. He didn’t tell me much about World War II. Tata ...

Arthur Van Haren Jr., a Mexican-American, was a highly decorated fighter pilot ace in WWII. He served in the Pacific Theater with the VF-2, 'The Rippers,' a squadron known for producing numerous aces.

Hollywood can exaggerate to the point of lunacy, and that's especially true of many military films. But when you see an actor remove his mask while pretending to fly a fighter jet, it may not actually ...

Though fighter aircraft are precision-designed instruments of war, there's no denying the rush that pilots get from strapping into these incredible machines. Similarly to cars, their appeal goes ...

A US Air Force F-35 pilot spent 50 minutes on an airborne conference call with Lockheed Martin engineers trying to solve a problem with his fighter jet before he ejected and the plane plunged to the ...

A Navy pilot was rescued after a $67 million fighter jet plunged into ocean waters off the Virginia coast Wednesday morning — marking the sixth pricey plane the military has lost in less than a year.

Faris Tanyos is a news editor for CBSNews.com, where he writes and edits stories and tracks breaking news. He previously worked as a digital news producer at several local news stations up and down ...

A pilot was rescued after a U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet crashed into ocean waters off the coast of Virginia on Wednesday morning, officials said. A little before 10 a.m. ET, a pilot assigned to ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A Virginia Beach-based Navy pilot was rescued from waters off the Virginia coast on Wednesday after ejecting from a fighter jet, according to the Navy. The pilot was flying a F/A ...