Entertaining crowds since 1953, the United States Air Force Thunderbirds are one of the world’s best known aerial demonstrations teams, dazzling ...

Painted in distinctive black schemes with a Playboy Bunny adorning the tail, mimicking an aircraft of the prominent ...

The F-5A was a testament to what happens when a defense contractor actually tries to restrain its impulses and focus on making an affordable craft.

With reports that Iran may soon receive its first new fighter jets since the 1979 Revolution (apart from when much of the ...

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

The first purely jet-powered aircraft flown off of American aircraft carriers, and the first jet aircraft flown by the United ...

Gen. Lloyd W. “Fig” Newton triumphed over a system that did its best to keep him in a position of second-class citizenship ...

The Blue Angels flying team includes some of the most accomplished and skilled pilots in the U.S. Navy. Here are some facts ...

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

Its surprisingly capable Wright J65-W-20 turbojet was more like a Cummins diesel in the sky than a sports car engine like what the F-104 Starfighter and F-4 Phantom ... Air Force A-4AR upgrade ...

He was big, imposing and was ours - Pensacola's and the country's. Now, 105 years after birth, he is honored with hometown ...

the F-105 could carry a total of over 12,000 pounds of conventional ordnance -- a heavier bomb load than a World War II B-17. The F-105 was gradually replaced by the F-4 Phantom, and the USAF withdrew ...