The White Swan has been employed in some of the longest flights ever conducted by the Russian Aerospace Forces.

In the next few years, the U.S. Air Force will say goodbye to the B-1 Lancer. The venerable bomber, known affectionately as the “Bone,” will be phased out, alongside the B-2 Spirit, in favor of the ...

Britain's only flying Cold War Vulcan bomber and which participated in Operation Black Buck bombing Stanley airport during the Falkland Islands conflict of 1982, will take its final flight next ...

The Wright Brothers first took flight in 1903, and a decade later, the first bomber took to the skies ... The U.S. Air Force began using the B-1 Lancer in 1985, and it was designed to fly at ...

First, the B-1 is the fastest bomber in the stable ... sweep wings is the ability to change the shape of the aircraft mid-flight, hence changing the aircraft’s flight characteristics.

The BTF 25-1 deployment is in support of Pacific Air Forces’ training efforts with Allies, partners and joint forces as part ...

Some 11.5 minutes into the flight — the 12th overall for the XB-1 — at an altitude of around 35,000 feet (10,668 meters), the test plane exceeded Mach 1, the speed of sound, marking the first ...

The Air Force did not identify the Lancers’ home station, but it routinely sends bombers on long flights from the United States called bomber task force missions to demonstrate its ability to ...

Ellsworth will continue to support AFGSC tasking out of Grand Forks AFB during the roughly 10-month relocation to allow for ...

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 ...

A man wearing a backpack on a flight from Sydney to Kuala Lumpur was heard using the word 'bomb', terrifying the almost 200 passengers and crew on board. Muhammad Arif wore his backpack on his ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft broke the sound barrier for the first time ever on Tuesday, ushering in a new era of supersonic flight. The jet exceeded Mach 1 after taking off from the Mojave ...