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In the 1970s, the U.S. Air Force explored an ambitious concept: transforming a Boeing 747 into an airborne aircraft carrier ...

President Dwight Eisenhower became the first US president to travel by jet when he flew on a new Air Force One plane in 1959. The jet, known as SAM (Special Air Missions) 970, was customized to ...

Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon used an Air Force One plane known as SAM 970. The first jet-powered presidential aircraft featured an office and a safe for the nuclear codes.

The F-106 performed well, with Mach 2.3 speed, a 57,000-foot service ceiling, and a 29,000-foot per minute climbing rate. Yet ...

The only confirmed supersonic air-to-air gun kill is credited to a hotshot U.S. Air Force F-4 Phantom II pilot named Maj. Phil “Hands” Handley.

The tiny Pacific island of Tinian was once used to cause the most devastating blast in human history. Now its 80-year-old airfield is being brought back to life, and locals fear history could repeat ...

The U.S. Air Force is examining ways to provide air superiority beyond the service's traditional go-to of advanced manned ...

Ground attack aircraft don't always get the same level of fame that fighter jets do, but they have long served a critical ...

In 1990, the F-117 Nighthawk was the first warplane to use stealth technology. Now the B-21 Raider promises new leaps in ...

Horrified bystanders urged others to call 911 as they filmed an 11-year-old girl being pinned to the ground by a burly ...

On April 21, 1958, 60 years ago Saturday, a fighter jet from Nellis Air Force Base and a United Airlines flight from Los Angeles collided 21,000 feet above the southwest valley. The two men in the ...