If you were wondering whether U.S. Air Force fighter pilots use the same type of jet, the answer is yes. After earning USAF pilot wings in Undergraduate Pilot Training (flying the T-38 Talon), and ...
If you've ever seen new pilots in the jets the U.S. Air Force uses for training or fighter jets in action, you've probably noticed how tightly they fly together. Sometimes it looks like they're just ...
Below, Michelle “MACE” Curran shares five key insights from her new book, The Flipside: How to Invert Your Perspective and Turn Fear into Your Superpower. Michelle spent over a decade as a fighter ...
Andrew Seepe always dreamed of sitting behind the controls of an F-18 Super Hornet. When he was a boy and his mother -- a medical officer in the Navy at the time-- was stationed at Marine Corps Air ...
When it's cold in your home, you turn on the heater, and when you're sweltering in the heat, you turn on your smart A/C. This is very simple, understandable logic, but only if you're sitting at home.
A retired fighter pilot watches his jet roar through the sky one last time. Diane Tedeschi Cesar "Rico" Rodriguez, a retired fighter pilot, attended the arrival of an F-15C at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy ...
Modern fighter jets can operate in pretty much any weather condition, be it super hot or incredibly cold. This allows the United States military to conduct operations anywhere in the world, including ...
A modern fighter jet’s weapons systems officer is responsible for monitoring sensor data, operating weapons, and conducting electronic warfare. In Top Gun, Anthony Edward’s lovable character Goose is ...
The development of autonomous pilots is moving faster than the Air Force had expected, as a flight last month showed.