Air Force

The U.S. Air Force has fewer than 300 active-duty Black pilots, and one just quit. Here’s why.

Legacy Flight Academy and Joint Base Charleston will host an event for young people this month.

The Air Force’s new pilot program targets its largest fuel consumer, the C-17 Globemaster III, and takes cues from commercial airlines strategies.

Contract work will be performed at Lockheed Martin’s Marietta, Georgia facility, which the company said will also be one of the locations selected for LMXT tanker production.

A California air base has been named the preferred site to base 12 KC-46A Pegasus refueling tankers, the U.S. Air Force announced. The dozen aircraft would replace aging KC-135 Stratotankers at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County, California, the service said. “The decision was made after conducting site surveys that assessed locations based on […]

A U.S. Air Force pilot recently successfully flew an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft during remote pilot in control (rPIC) training, marking the first government flight of a remotely piloted eVTOL, the Air Force said.  “A crucial thing that the RC controller allows you to do that a completely unmanned or a completely […]

Teaming up formations of manned aircraft and drones ‘opens up a whole range of tactics that we currently would not contemplate,’ Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said Wednesday.

The U.S. Air Force’s “Thunderbirds” Air Demonstration Squadron is conducting winter training in New Mexico and Arizona this month, marking the first off-station winter training session for the team.

The U.S. Navy’s fighter attack fleet availability ‘fell considerably more’ than that of the Air Force, according to the government report.

Additional staffing will allow the high-temperature laboratory to operate longer hours as demand for testing is expected to increase in the year ahead.