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.
Starting at age 16, I spent 16 years as a volunteer firefighter in southwest Pennsylvania, where I'm from, before I became a pilot. I flew for World Airways in these same McDonnell Douglas DC-10s for ...
but via the Yokusuka P1Y1 Ginga or the Mitsubishi G4M "Betty" bomber. Once released, the pilot would glide it toward a target and ignite the rockets. The combination of speed and warhead could ...
Photo: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu/Getty Images Tanker 47 rears up as helicopter pilot Darren Davies settles it to hover over the Encino Reservoir, a half-mile-wide artificial lake perched on the ...
Blue Angel pilots are based in their winter home of El Centro, California, flying two or three times per day, six days a week, Montana said. It’s getting those repetitions in, including constant ...