Aviation Features

The versatile “swing wing” F-111, unofficially named the “Aardvark” until its retirement ceremony on July 27, 1996, when the name was made official, entered the USAF inventory in 1967. […]

A beautiful winter morning on the high plains of eastern New Mexico. There was not a cloud in the sky for hundreds of miles and temps were in the low 30’s. A great day to go fly. […]

The Aviators is a new weekly magazine-style TV series featuring interesting people, the latest aircraft, current technology and fly-in destinations. […]

Through the 1960s Detroit, Michigan was the gem of the northern United States. By 1970 it was the example of urban failure. […]

Even if we don’t discuss the economics of opportunity costs, that is who more productively can determine how to invest dollars: government or private individuals, government spending can always be shown to be a depletion of resources in an economy. […]

Hurricane Hunters are manned aircraft that fly into tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic Ocean and Northeastern Pacific Ocean for the specific purpose of directly measuring weather data in and around those storms. […]

The art of aviation has come a long way since the ballooning regiments of the Army Air Corps and the Wright brothers. […]

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh (formerly The EAA Annual Convention and Fly-In) is America’s largest annual gathering of aviation enthusiasts held each summer at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States. […]

KC-X is the name of the United States Air Force program to procure its next-generation aerial refueling tanker aircraft. This aircraft is intended to replace some of the older Boeing KC-135 Stratotankers. […]

The aviation industry has been in a decline since 1978 and unless we do something about the causes, we can expect to see it in a death spiral. […]