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 65-year-old B-52 Stratofortress landed safely at Offutt Air Force Base about two hours after declaring an emergency over ...

A B-52 Bomber was forced to make an emergency stop at Offutt Air Force base this week. The aircraft was four hours into ...

Airman First Class Albert Moore became the last B-52 gunner to down an enemy aircraft with rear guns in any American war.

Designers and crew like to give their aircraft nicknames—very often, the nickname that sticks is from an attribute of the ...

Over a decade as a defense journalist, he has reported from dozens of bases at home and abroad, including austere airstrips in Afghanistan, the cockpit of a B-52 over the South Pacific and the ...

Aircraft technology that has been crucial to making big midair collisions exceptionally rare in the U.S. was limited in helping avoid Wednesday’s deadly collision between a commercial jetliner ...

and suddenly the B-52 began to break apart mid-air. As the fuselage was spinning and heading back towards earth, the centrifugal forces pulled on a lanyard in the cockpit — exactly as a ...

The training of U.S. military helicopter pilots is getting heightened attention following the mid-air collision between an ...

The remains of 42 people had been pulled from the river by Saturday afternoon, including 38 that had been positively ...

Investigators have already recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder of the American Airlines plane that ...