As a space buff, I knew the KC-135 was used to train astronauts for weightlessness. But its main mission is USAF aircraft ...

The U.S. Air Force and Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) recently conducted a joint "elephant walk" at Misawa Air Base, ...

GRAPEVINE, Texas—The past few years for the U.S. Air Force’s mobility crews have been marked by a constant high pace of ...

US Air Force's B-52 Stratofortress are not just the longest-serving combat aircraft in the world but is an advanced bomber ...

The aircraft is the last in a long line of converted tankers to serve with the Marine Corps, which used legacy KC-130s that ...

Boeing is widely known for its commercial airplanes, but it also makes military planes flown by the U.S. and its allies. Here ...

The Space Perspective “SpaceBalloon,” filled with hydrogen, will lift the capsule at 12 miles per hour. The balloon itself is ...

These aircraft take off and land vertically, like helicopters, but fly like fixed-wing planes. Many companies are working to get them on the market, but they have been held back by the lack of ...

Powered lift includes aircraft described by industry watchers as electric vertical takeoff and landing, or eVTOL. Using tilt rotors, eVTOL aircraft are designed to take off and land vertically ...

Just who was flying the Ilyushin Il-76 at night over war-torn Darfur remains in question. The aircraft previously was linked to an effort by the United Arab Emirates to arm the paramilitary force ...