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Many years ago, when I was still a bold pilot, I was in the U.S. Air Force, based at Beale AFB and flying as a copilot aboard the KC-135Q, the venerable airborne tanker system based on the Boeing 707. The “Q” version of the KC-135 was specially modified to refuel the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird with […]

As the season gets going, the early schedule is full of interesting events.

Marine Corps pilots landed 20 F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters on the deck of the USS Tripoli (LHA-7) this week, marking the largest number of the jump jets loaded onto a U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship. The aircraft landings are part of an ongoing joint Navy and Marine Corps exercise underway in the Pacific […]

Editor’s note: The following article is not intended to be a ranking, but is only to serve as a list of possible options. As the saying goes, your mileage may vary. Are you in search of a pilot job in Texas? Do you have a pilot job and wonder if there are better pilot jobs […]

Approval means Bulgaria is one step closer to buying four F-16 C Block 70 and four F-16 D Block 70 fighters.

The organization’s fleet of Boeing E-3As surveillance aircraft is set to retire in 2035.

FedEx Express is partnering with California-based Elroy Air to develop and test an autonomous hybrid electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for cargo in 2023.

Editor’s Note: This article is part of a month-long series to mark Women’s History Month: March 1: Pioneers of Women’s Aviation | March 2: Carole Hopson | March 4: Martha King | March 8: Association for Women in Aviation Maintenance | March 11: The Air Race Classic | March 15: Sisters of the Skies | March 18: Women in Aviation Conference | March 25: Bonny Simi of […]

In the opening days of the Vietnam War, an aircraft carrying 107 people went missing as it was en route to Saigon on a secret mission.

Walt Disney was too old to be drafted during World War II but that didn’t stop him—and Disney Studios—from contributing to the war effort. Disney’s animation studios played a crucial role in the development of military unit patches used during World War II.  The designs were handpainted on leather, and then the patches sewn onto […]