Aviation Features

Bong entered college and instantly enrolled in a government-sponsored pilot training program and soon earned a private pilot license in a Cub. After 2 1/2 years of college, he enlisted in the Air Corp’s Aviation Cadet Program. His timing was opportune. Pearl Harbor was attacked just after he started pilot training. […]

The execute order is given. The two orbiting pilots fly across the border and point their F-35A Lightning IIs toward a high-value target in enemy territory. […]

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is a scientific research organization operated by the United States Air Force dedicated to the development of warfighting technologies. […]

The A-10, officially christened Thunderbolt II, but universally referred to as Warthog because of its ungainly appearance, is the first US Air Force aircraft specifically designed for close air support of ground forces. […]

Like all shuttle missions, STS-118 is about the future: putting the International Space Station a step closer to completion and gathering experience that will help people return to the moon and go on to Mars. […]

A military exercise (also called war game in American English) is the employment of military resources in training for military operations, either exploring the effects of warfare or testing strategies without actual combat. […]

The Boeing E-4B Advanced Airborne Command Post, with a project name of “Nightwatch”, is an aircraft operated by the United States Air Force and is specially built to serve as a survivable mobile command post for the National Command Authority (the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense, and successors). […]

Maj. Dean Neeley is in the forward, lower cockpit of the Lockheed U-2ST, a two-place version of the U-2S, a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft that the Air Force calls “Dragon Lady.” […]

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was a four-engine heavy bomber propeller aircraft flown by the United States Army Air Forces in World War II and other military organizations afterwards. The name “Superfortress” was derived from its well-known predecessor, the B-17 Flying Fortress. […]

There is nothing romantic about my getting a job at The Boeing Co. I simply needed a job and they were hiring. I hired in on 15 April 1957 and retired on 1 August 1999. […]