The KC-46As will replace the base’s KC-135 Stratotankers, an airplane first developed in the 1950s. The new tankers, which ...

COLORADO SPRINGS—NASA says the two-person flight crew of a vintage WB-57F high-altitude research aircraft were unharmed after ...

One hundred seventy-seven B-24 Liberators took off from Libya on August 1, 1943, bound for the Romanian oil refineries at ...

Flying into the night meant trusting a thin skin of metal, a handful of guns, and the nerve of the man sitting alone at the ...

The 40th anniversary of the Challenger explosion stirs the memories of Long Island educators who watched the disaster on ...

Even the ABS is derived from a once-complex braking system of fighter jets.

Built for observation, doomed by speed—the Henschel Hs 126 was in the worst place during the worst moments. It saw the opening of WWII from the sky, reporting what it couldn’t change. Discover how it ...

The last Nazis on Greenland were captured in October 1944, when American soldiers raided a hidden German weather station on ...

History is filled with military aircraft that looked like expensive miscalculations long before they ever saw combat.

As a member of Guadalcanal's "Cactus Air Force," Joe Foss made an enduring mark.

John Breckenridge’s military legacy was borne in war on the South Pacific island of Guadalcanal in 1942. A pragmatic thinker ...

The blast consumed everyone near the bow. No witnesses survived to explain what triggered the detonation. A fireball erupted ...