Aviation legend Chuck Yeager dies age 97
US aviation legend Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to break the sound barrier, has died, his wife announced Monday. "It ...
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US F-16 fighter jet crashes in Germany with pilot taken to hospital
An American F-16 fighter jet crashed Tuesday near the city of Trier in western Germany, the German air force told ...
First female F-35 test pilot completes flight mission
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE: A routine F-35 Lightning II flight test mission recently marked a significant event in Air Force ...
RAF Pilots Test Threat Awareness and Pilot Safety Enhancements for Typhoon Jets
The latest enhancements for the Eurofighter Typhoon combat jet have been successfully tested by UK Royal Air Force (RAF) pilots ...
F-22 pilot reaches 1,000 flight hours
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE: Four-year-old Steve Rainey sat on the hood of his father's car at a local airshow watching ...
F-15 crashes in Pacific, pilot safe
KADENA AIR BASE, Japan: Japan Air Self Defense Force rescue squadron crews safely recovered the pilot who ejected from a ...
First international student pilot flies F-35
The first international student aviator at the 33rd Fighter Wing, training to be an F-35B Lightning II instructor pilot, completed ...
Pilot Calls F-35 ‘Big Leap’ in Fighter Capability
The F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter jet will be a strategic deterrent for the nation because of its "huge ...
First F-35 training commander: ‘this jet is our future’
Five months of flying the Air Force's newest fighter jet has left one Airman convinced of the aircraft's substantial combat ...
Syria fighter pilot defects in new blow to Assad
A Syrian air force colonel won political asylum after landing his MiG fighter in Jordan, as a watchdog reported the ...
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