Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr, a decorated World War II pilot who broke racial barriers as a member of Tuskegee Airmen ...

The A-4 Skyhawk was one of the most recognizable fighter aircraft from the Vietnam era. A small, agile, carrier-ready design, ...

Stretching back to WWII, the history of Russian jet development is intertwined with that of the United States. Here are the ...

Captain Richard Stratton did more than serve his country in the Vietnam War — the prisoner of war was known as The Beak, a heroic member of the Strike Fighter Squadron 192. On Saturday, the Quincy ...

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

President Donald Trump's executive order dismantles DEI programs on a federal level, but efforts continue from Montgomery to ...

Lockheed’s Flying CARR made this concept a reality.” The notion of a fixed-wing airplane that can turn into a rotary-wing ...

That’s because the Pentagon needed a plane that could fly low and hover for protracted periods over a battlefield—a niche that jets couldn’t fill. In other words, the A-1 was America’s original Close ...

Cmdr. Clyde Lassen piloted a dangerous rescue mission in 1968 to save two Naval aviators shot down in the jungle ...

To compensate for the considerable advantages the F-4 Phantoms had over MiG-21s, the North Vietnamese developed innovative ...

In a high-end conflict, those older aircraft would likely need to employ tactics similar to those Ukraine's air force is employing now with its Soviet-era fighter jets and its US-made F-16s.

A Taiwanese Air Force officer died after being sucked into the engine of a fighter jet, officials said. The incident reportedly happened at Ching Chuan Kang Air Base on Tuesday while the master ...