Generation Gap
21 May 2015
The fifth generation of fighters, the F-22 and F-35, fundamentally changes the concept of operations for combat.
T-50 Update
20 May 2015
As of 2015, more than 1,000 pilots have been trained using the T-50. The aircraft fleet has accumulated more than 100,000 flight hours.
Carmine Vito: U-2 Pilot
30 April 2015
Vito’s mission took him directly over Moscow and its extensive network of newly built air defenses, which ringed the city in three concentric circles at twenty, forty, and sixty miles from the city center.
Photo By John Rossino
16 April 2015
Lockheed Martin Photographer John Rossino Retires After A Thirty-One Year Career
C-5M: One For The Record Books
14 April 2015
A C-5M crew set forty-five new world aeronautical records on one flight to make the Super Galaxy the all-time world record holder.
F-35 Aerial Refueling Tests
9 April 2015
This particular series of refueling missions in near-dark conditions was to flight test a new prototype refueling probe light.
Thrust Vectoring In The Real World
7 April 2015
Tactical utility of a multi-axis thrust-vectoring system tested on an F-16 in 1994.
F-35 Climatic Testing
3 April 2015
The F-35 recently completed climatic testing, just like many other aircraft before it.
Beryl Arthur Erickson, Test Pilot
27 February 2015
Erickson was the first pilot to fly the B-36 Peacemaker and the B-58 Hustler.
NATO’s Joint Air Mission
20 February 2015
The thirty-sixth NATO deployment to secure air space over the Baltic States began on 1 September 2014 when four F-16s of the Portuguese Air Force, or Força Aérea Portuguesa, landed in Lithuania.