The X-62 Variable In-Flight Stability Test Aircraft (VISTA) flies in the skies over Edwards Air Force Base, California, March 23, 2023. (Air Force photo by Ethan Wagner) While safety pilots were onboard at all times, the AI agent successfully demonstrated it...
The B-21 Raider is a high-tech nuclear-capable stealth bomber designed with future modernization in mind to ensure the aircraft and technology are able to evolve throughout time and threat changes. (Photo: Travis Burcham via Airman Magazine) The service expects something better...
“Lancelot” about to land at Tinker AFB on Feb. 8, 2024. (Image credit: Rob Stephens / @RedhomeAviation) “Lancelot” was stored at AMARG’s. It was pulled pulled from the “Boneyard” to rejoin the Air Force’s Strategic Bomber Fleet. A B-1B Lancer bomber...
Douglas C-124A Globemaster II 49-244 in January 1951. (Image credit: via Don Wagner) A Desperate Plea for Help. A Terrifying Survival Ordeal. A Bizarre Disappearance, and the Strangest Cold War Mystery You’ve Never Heard Of. It started out as a seemingly...
The B-21 Raider received the Grand Laureate award within the defense space at Aviation Week’s 66th Annual Laureate Awards. (Photo: Northrop Grumman) A new photo was released as part of a press release on the Aviation Week Grand Laureate Award received...
File photo of two U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons from the 120th Fighter Squadron (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Wolfram M. Stumpf/Released) Cracks on the canopy sill longerons are affecting the U.S. Air Force inventory of F-16s....
The new F-16 Viper Demo Pilot Capt. Taylor “FEMA” Hiester (left) and F-35 Demo Pilot Capt. Melanie “MACH” Kluesner (right). (U.S. Air Force photos) Capt. Taylor “FEMA” Hiester and Capt. Melanie “MACH” Kluesner became the new certified pilots of the F-16...
B-52 Stratofortress crews from the 23rd Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota and the 49th Test and Evaluation Squadron, Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, participated in hypersonic weapon familiarization training at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Feb. 27,...
A U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer assigned to the 28th Bomb Wing, Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, approaches the runway as it arrives for Bomber Task Force 24-2 at Luleå-Kallax Air Base, Sweden, Feb. 23, 2024. BTF operations provide U.S....
A U.S. Marine Corps XQ-58A Valkyrie, highly autonomous, low-cost tactical unmanned air vehicle, conducts its first test flight with a U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft assigned to 96th Test Wing at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., Oct. 3, 2023....
