Born for Cold War fleet defense, the F-14 Tomcat paired swing-wing agility with the AWG-9 radar and AIM-54 Phoenix to hunt ...
September 19th, 1942. Oberleutnant Wilhelm Johnen pushes his Messerschmitt Bf 109G to its absolute limit, engine screaming at ...
The large number of existing aircraft, robust global supply chain, and balanced cost-to-performance value make the F-16 the ...
During World War II, the sky was its own battlefield, and the fighter pilots who owned it were a different breed. They were ...
VAN BUREN TWP, MI - The owner and pilot of a 1981 MiG-23 plane that crashed during a 2023 air show is suing his passenger, ...
Born on Feb. 19, 1960, at Buckingham Palace, Prince Andrew was the first child born to a reigning monarch (his mother, Queen Elizabeth, was crowned in 1953) in 103 years. He joined older siblings ...
If you were wondering whether U.S. Air Force fighter pilots use the same type of jet, the answer is yes. After earning USAF pilot wings in Undergraduate Pilot Training (flying the T-38 Talon), and ...
A Chinese air force pilot told state media he flew his fighter jet upside down within 50 feet of a foreign military aircraft during a near encounter last year, in a maneuver reminiscent of those in ...
Below, Michelle “MACE” Curran shares five key insights from her new book, The Flipside: How to Invert Your Perspective and Turn Fear into Your Superpower. Michelle spent over a decade as a fighter ...
President Donald Trump nominated a nearly retired four-star general and fighter pilot to serve as the Air Force's chief of staff, the service announced Sept. 30. Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach, whose fighter ...
ACM training is not about memorizing a catalog of maneuvers, but ingraining a mindset within the pilot: managing chaos, anticipating geometry, and making split-second decisions under high-G pressure.