On April 11, 1929, the Boeing P-12 Fighter took to the skies for the first time, marking a key milestone in American military ...

Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a U.S. naval captain ordered his battleship to hold a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot who died slamming his fighter plane into the American vessel ...

The US Air Force calls it the “Frankenjet,” a stealth fighter stitched together from the parts of two F-35s wrecked in ...

The U.S. Air Force contract award to Boeing for the F-47 fighter component of the Next-Generation Air Dominance system, coupled with an imminent Navy F/A-XX contract for a similarly advanced carrier ...

Aviation played a huge role in how the Vietnam War rolled out—after all, there’s a reason the conflict is also known as “The ...

Sgt. Joe Harris was one of an elite group of Black paratroopers during World War II. He is being laid to rest today. He was ...

Navy PB4Y-1 pilot Bruce Van Voorhis was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in the South Pacific. Here, a ...

After World War II, Germany was divided into what became two sectors: West Germany, controlled by the Western Allies (United ...

The automatic pilot (‘autopilot’) has to be one of aviation’s finest technological inventions. Yet, it is also one of the ...

Nicknamed the “Tokyo Express” by their opponents, the Japanese “tin cans” acquired the grudging respect of the Americans for ...

The Chinese military staged a second day of exercises around Taiwan on Wednesday, launching live-fire strikes in the East ...

Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Aug. 10, 1889, Scott chose to leave his landlocked home for the sea and graduated from the ...