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The Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) wants to purchase eight F-35 fighter jets in a bid to modernize its defense capabilities, according to reports. The stealth fighter jet buy is needed to update the service’s current fleet of F-5 and F-16 aircraft, some of which have been in use for more than 30 years, Commander-in-Chief […]

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You would think pilots would have learned their lesson about messing with thunderstorms, especially landing in or near them. I mean, we’re almost 40 years beyond the defining moment in understanding wind shear and microbursts, the August 1985 crash of Delta Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011, in Dallas, Texas. Add to that, many aircraft now […]

This holiday season you can be sure that someone reading this story will either receive or give a scale-model kit as a gift.  There’s always been a link between general aviation and scale modeling. So much so that in the early days of Popular Aviation Magazine (which would later become FLYING Magazine), there were pages […]

The aircraft delivery to Lakenheath, England, makes the 495th Fighter Squadron the first USAF F-35A squadron based in Europe.

The Wright brothers’ first flight isn’t the only aviation happening that occurred on December 17.

The U.S. Air Force successfully dropped a cruise missile armed with a live warhead out of a MC-130J over the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) announced. The December 16 test at Eglin Air Force Base Overwater Test Range in Florida was a demonstration of the Air Force’s Rapid Dragon, […]

Stratolaunch’s chief pilot reveals Roc ’s fascinating flight dynamics and what’s next for the historic, twin-fuselage jet.

Security concerns regarding China reportedly are threatening to derail the multibillion dollar agreement.

Experimental aircraft is expected to be shipped to Lockheed Martin’s facility in Fort Worth, Texas by year’s end.