As prep for a Kansas trip to participate in a KC-135 mid-air refueling, we thought it would be interesting to revisit other ...

I served in the United States Air Force Security Service for five years, from 1955. I enlisted right after high school ...

What You Need to Know: The SR-72, developed by Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, is a proposed hypersonic reconnaissance ...

The Soviet MiG-25 "Foxbat" was a high-speed interceptor designed to counter U.S. spy planes like the U-2 and SR-71. With ...

There aren’t many current and former U-2 spy plane pilots in the world, but I recently had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with one of them. Stan Rauch, who turns 80 this month, grew up at Lake ...

In a September 1965 test, a YF-12 successfully launched a quarter-kiloton atomic missile, from an altitude of 75,000 feet at ...

He was a Vietnam Veteran, serving his country as a U.S. Air Force Sergeant Inventory Specialist 1968-1974. He was involved with supplying parts for the U2 spy planes.

A U.S. Air Force press release has confirmed the next Bomber Task Force deployment to Europe will begin in the coming days, ...

In 2018, I visited Beale Air Force Base near Sacramento, California, where the venerable U-2 is kept. At the time, I experienced a flight in a T-38 fighter jet trainer, “chased" U-2s in a high ...

The U.S. Air Force is likely developing the SR-72, known as the “Son of Blackbird,” to carry on the SR-71’s legacy of ...

“So the Air Force said, ‘What do you like to do?’ Well, I said ‘I like cameras.’ I got to repair cameras that are on ...

The SR-72, known as the "Son of Blackbird," is poised to succeed the SR-71 Blackbird, one of the fastest surveillance planes ...