‘It’s a very different aircraft from the jets I flew, and despite being much lower performance, the Cessna 172 is perfectly capable of killing you when it impacts the ground,’…

VMX-1’s CH-53K detachment quickly examined the environmental conditions and conducted a quick feasibility assessment of support and determined that the King Stallion could conduct the lift. The CH-53K King Stallion…

‘We do heavy maintenance to the B-52. I mean heavy,’ Darren Dennis, Aerospace Propulsion Apprentice at US Air Force. The B-52 Stratofortress has served as the backbone of the US-manned…

Despite several flaws, the B-58’s pilots and crews were in awe of it. The Hustler represented the apex of a bomber pilot’s career The B-58, the US Air Force’s first…

Admiral Chester W. Nimitz was aware that the Japanese might change their code if they believed Admiral Yamamoto had been ambushed. The risk, in his opinion, was worthwhile Admiral Yamamoto…

It’s simple to forget that airplanes had only been there for around 30 years before the beginning of the Second World War. Since the science of airplane design was still…

The aircraft carrier’s fantail opening serves several functions. Fantails “are small insectivorous birds of Australasia, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent belonging to the genus Rhipidura.” According to Twelve Mile…

The time-lapse video in this post features the manufacturing of the X-59 QueSST and includes the merger of its main sections – the wing, tail assembly, and fuselage or forward…

“You know the part in the ‘High Flight’ poem where it talks about putting out your hand to touch the face of God? Well, when we were ‘at speed and…

Operation El Dorado Canyon, the Air Force’s longest combat mission flown by a tactical aircraft at the time, was hailed as a triumph On April 14, 1986, at 5:13 p.m.,…