The U.S. Air Force long has kept the same three bombers in rotation, but that will soon change. The United States has the most robust fleet of strategic bombers on Earth. For a generation, the U.S.
A B-52 Bomber was forced to make an emergency stop at Offutt Air Force base this week. The aircraft was four hours into training on a flight out of Louisiana on Wednesday when it experienced ...
It was in 1947 that Chuck Yeager, a United States Air Force officer, became the first person to break the sound barrier. On October 14, 1947, the Bell X-1, a sleek, rocket-powered aircraft was dropped ...
Details about the new B-21 Low-Rate Initial Production contract have not been released, however Northrop Grumman said it had preliminary talks with the ...
Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator plane just went supersonic in the skies over California’s Mojave Desert, making it the first civil aircraft to break the sound barrier. The American startup ...
In November, new footage of the B-21 circulated on social media, depicting the airframe flying at high altitudes during ongoing tests. The images captured by aviation photographer Jarod Hamilton ...
During the XB-1's historic flight on Tuesday—its 12th test flight overall—the aircraft stayed supersonic for around four minutes before breaking the sound barrier two more times during the ...