The historic, all-Black unit included more than 15,000 Black pilots, mechanics and cooks from throughout the nation, ...
The Tuskegee Airmen were the nation's first Black military pilots who served in a segregated World War II unit.
World War II marked a significant push in military aircraft innovation, eschewing most of the biplanes from the previous war ...
When Joe Foss -- then the commissioner of the upstart AFL -- sent a letter to his NFL counterpart, Pete Rozelle, in December ...
The American fighter Lockheed P-38 Lightning from the World War II era, whose wreck is located off the coast of Wales (near ...
The Lockheed L-133 Starjet was a prime example of a paradoxical “successful failure.” As I asserted in a recent article for ...
Decades ahead of its time, the Lockheed L-133 Starjet could have revolutionized aerial combat during World War II. Designed with cutting-edge jet propulsion in 1939, it promised speeds twice that of ...
The test flight took place in the same Mojave Desert area in California where Charles "Chuck" Yeager first broke the sound ...
An instructional film that depicts the World War II Black aviators as proof that diversity strengthens the military is not back in classroom use.
Wall Street analysts worry that new Chinese stealth aircraft could persuade the US to buy fewer of Lockheed Martin's F-35 ...
When most military analysts discuss the strength of respective air forces within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO ...
The U.S. Air Force has flown some of the greatest fighter jets in history, but there are a few stinkers, too. These are the ...