When outfitted as a C-17, for example, VISTA’s highly modified F-16 will react like a C-17, not an F-16, simulating the flight characteristics of many different aircraft Students at Edwards…
The 187th Fighter Wing of the Alabama Air National Guard’s F-16 Vipers carries on the Tuskegee Airmen’s legacy The Tuskegee Airmen’s legacy has given the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW)…
On March 2, 2017, Lt. Col. Steven R. Smith, a flying instructor with the 93rd Bomb Squadron, surpassed the 10,000-hour milestone in the B-52 Stratofortress At Barksdale Air Force Base…
One of the most incredible events of World War II occurred on June 12, 1943, when an army surrendered to an RAF Swordfish pilot One of the most amazing events…
In order to support U.S. CENTCOM Operation Inherent Resolve, Green Flag East 17-03 saw the participation of over 30,000 U.S. Army Soldiers and over 1,000 Airmen Airmen from the 23rd…
As part of its 20th-anniversary commemoration efforts for 9/11, the Eastern Air Defense Sector arranged for a unit photograph to be taken at the nearby Griffiss International Airport on June…
The eight “legacy” C-130H Hercules aircraft and the tactical airlift role were both removed from the Alaska Air National Guard by the Presidential Budget A small group of observers and…
“Talking to Lockheed engineers later, they determined there was a good possibility if we had gone supersonic, the entire nose section might have imploded from the supersonic shock wave,” Col. Richard…
Three Su-24 Fencer attack aircraft and one Il-38 May maritime patrol aircraft were involved in the incident On February 10, 2017, several Russian military aircraft buzzed the U.S. Navy destroyer,…
The “Project Moonflower” program intended to sell the F-117 stealth fighter to the United Kingdom when it was still a top-secret aircraft According to recently declassified documents made available by…
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