Military Aviation

The Fighting Falcon pilot ejected during an in-flight emergency over the Yellow Sea while on a routine training flight.

Japan said it would suspend operations of its fleet of 14 Ospreys until the cause of the crash was clarified.

Three U.S. Marines were killed in the incident and five left in serious condition, according to officials.

The DOD’s new Joint Safety Council aims to “bridge the gap between commercial aviation practices and military aviation realities.”

On December 20, 1941, an all-volunteer group of American mercenary pilots took on Japanese bombers in their first air combat mission to protect China.  By day’s end, the American Volunteer Group (AVG)—better known as the “Flying Tigers”—would go on to down nine out of 10 Japanese bombers in the first of many air battles in […]

In its third-quarter earnings call Friday, Embraer said that despite posting a loss for the quarter, it expects 2021 to be the company’s first profitable year since 2017, beating its own expectations. The $45 million, third-quarter loss the company reported is a stark improvement year-to-date, compared to the $121 million loss reported for the third […]

Ahead of the Dubai Air Show this week in the United Arab Emirates, Boeing gave an update on its T-7 training platform program for the initial contractor, the U.S. Air Force. Program manager and vice president Paul Niewald delivered the briefing on the T-7 from the current lead aircraft position on the production line, where […]

The TBM 700 has found a niche not only in its use by pilots for personal and business use—the turboprop also serves in military applications, including a fleet of 23 TBM 700As and 3 TBM 700Bs deployed for the French military. While the bulk of the fleet is detailed to the French Air and Space […]

The University of North Dakota has become the first university in the country to partner with the U.S. Space Force as part of an effort to recruit and retain a highly skilled STEM workforce in the space sector. “The Space Force faces some of the toughest challenges in engineering, science and technology,” Gen. John W. […]

Ask most people about the mission of the US Air Force and they’ll probably mention something about protecting the nation by flying jets around or something equally vague. In existence since its formation from the old US Army Air Corps in the fall of 1947, this branch of the US military—supporting more than 689,000 men […]