In the early 1960s, the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom arrived on the scene. Revolutionary for its time, the Phantom was fast, ...

Entertaining crowds since 1953, the United States Air Force Thunderbirds are one of the world’s best known aerial demonstrations teams, dazzling ...

The F-5A was a testament to what happens when a defense contractor actually tries to restrain its impulses and focus on ...

Gen. Lloyd W. “Fig” Newton triumphed over a system that did its best to keep him in a position of second-class citizenship ...

FLYING is counting down to its 100th ILAFFT podcast episode. This week we revisit listener favorite No. 2: 'When Punching Out ...

The TacIRST sensors to be installed into most if not all of the small fleet of 178 USAF F-22 Raptors. These sensors are not new to military aviation, with Tactical Air Support (TacAir) adding them to ...

Designers and crew like to give their aircraft nicknames—very often, the nickname that sticks is from an attribute of the ...

Iran looks to be getting Su-35 fighter jets from Russia, but they won't fill the gaps in Iran's degraded air defenses against ...

enabling controllers to direct Air Force F-4s and Navy fighters against them.” Most significantly from a bragging rights standpoint, Operation Linebacker I was the venue by which both the USN ...

Stretching back to WWII, the history of Russian jet development is intertwined with that of the United States. Here are the ...

He was big, imposing and was ours - Pensacola's and the country's. Now, 105 years after birth, he is honored with hometown ...

The pilot reported a malfunction and declared an in-flight emergency. An Air Force F-35 fighter jet crashed at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska on Tuesday as the pilot ejected safely, officials said.