First F-35B STOVL Mode Formation Flight
On Feb. 11, two F-35B Lightning IIs conducted the first close formation flight in the short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) mode. …
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Book Review – Area 51 Black Jets: A History of the Aircraft Developed at Groom Lake, America’s Secret Aviation Base
Billed as the “first fully-illustrated history of Area 51,” Area 51 Black Jets: A History of the Aircraft Developed at …
Book Review – X-15: The World’s Fastest Rocket Plane and the Pilots Who Ushered in the Space Age
In the annals of experimental aircraft, the X-15 is not as revered or as remembered as the Bell X-1, which …
The Evolution of the U-2 Dragon Lady
With the Lockheed Martin U-2 Dragon Lady set to give way to the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk, President Barack …
Boeing Maritime Surveillance Aircraft Demonstrator Makes First Flight
The Bombardier Challenger 604 business jet was built to ensure that high-powered executives travel in style. However, the one that …
Ukraine Response: U.S. Deploys Additional Aircraft to Poland and Baltics
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is deploying more aircraft to Poland and the Baltics in response to the Russian …
Distributed Battle Management: DARPA Seeks to Manage Increasingly Complex Contested Airspace
Anyone who has seen the 2005 movie Stealth has seen a vision of a unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAVs) fighting …
Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System (ARES)
The Lockheed Martin Skunk Works led team, that includes Piasecki Aircraft, has released a video showing the potential capabilities of …
Airware’s Aerial Ranger: Anti-poaching Efforts Go Unmanned
The proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has seen them perform an ever-evolving set of missions. One of those missions, …
Transit Center at Manas’ Final Mission | Photos
The Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, has been a gateway to Afghanistan for troops and supplies since its opening in …