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

After his stint in Vietnam, Stan was sent off to be trained to fly the U-2 spy plane. “The U-2 is the Air Force’s most difficult plane to land,” Stan said. “It has a 104-foot wingspan, and its landing ...

The Soviet Union continued to invest heavily in the development of capable next-generation fighter and bomber aircraft ...

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 ...

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

These are the reconnaissance and weather reconnaissance aircraft the USAF possesses, according to the listings on its website ...

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 ...

In a September 1965 test, a YF-12 successfully launched a quarter-kiloton atomic missile, from an altitude of 75,000 feet at Mach 3.26.

Officials also see the new mission as a chance to maintain Beale’s place in the local economy as the Air Force phases away from its U-2 Dragon Lady, a spy plane long flown from Beale.

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