On this day in aviation history, February 21, 1919, the Thomas-Morse MB-3 fighter made its first flight. This aircraft was ...

On this day in aviation history, February 20, 1939, the Douglas DC-5 made its first flight. Less remembered than its cousins, ...

Aviation experts say it's not surprising passengers and crew members walked away from a plane that flipped while landing in ...

Ace in a day' is a rare distinction. Among the earliest American pilots to do so, Jim Swett was credited with seven victories ...

Peering out the hangar doors at the Chico Air Museum is a bright yellow 1943 Fairchild PT-26, the kind of plane that gave ...

The Navy’s TOPGUN program is called the Navy Fighter Weapons School. Pilots who go through the program teaches air combat maneuvering tactics and techniques to select naval aviators and naval ...

Blue Angels fans have just over a month to wait before the U.S. Navy flight demonstration team ... Fans will see two new F/A-18E/F Super Hornet pilots, a new Fat Albert (C-130J Super Hercules ...

Navy TOPGUN graduate and F/A-18 fighter pilot Matthew "Whiz" Buckley detailed the brain injuries he and many of his fellow pilots suffer as a result of years of high-speed flight maneuvers.

Being chosen as a member of the Blue Angels, whether as a pilot ... British Columbia, Canada, when a pilot accidentally broke the sound barrier, the fuel-thirsty Phantom served until 1974. The ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link A US Navy pilot's quick reaction saved himself and his aircraft from a crash in the Indian Ocean after a "catastrophic failure" occurred ...

US Navy Photo Patrol and Reconnaissance wings 10 and 11 are conducting intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions on the southern border, a Navy official confirmed to USNI News on ...