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A Montana businessman built a Cobra attack helicopter from spare parts

By Blake Stilwell

The tiny Cold War helicopter the Marines almost took into combat

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Air Commandos and the evolution of the ultimate gunship

By Friedrich Seiltgen

The time an F-15 set off an earthquake panic

By Miguel Ortiz

The ‘Chopper Popper’ scored the A-10’s first air-to-air kill against an Iraqi helicopter

By Blake Stilwell

This AI-powered fighter jet doesn’t need a pilot… or a runway

By Miguel Ortiz

The A-10 training guide from the 1970s was a hilarious coloring book

By Blake Stilwell

The powerful tilt-wing XC-142A was your granddaddy’s Osprey

By Friedrich Seiltgen

Sikorsky’s new autonomous unmanned Black Hawk helicopter is here

By Miguel Ortiz

Why Australia buried all of its old F-111 Aardvark tactical aircraft

By Blake Stilwell

A TikTok song is teaching people how to start (and steal) an F-16

By Miguel Ortiz

NatGeo’s new ‘Top Guns’ series is a real-world, behind the scenes look at ‘Top Gun’

New Army contract will turn Black Hawk helicopters into drone-launching motherships

By Miguel Ortiz

Why the SR-71 Blackbird is the only aircraft with the SR designation

By Blake Stilwell

A pilot survived a Mach 3 ejection from the edge of space by not ejecting at all

By Friedrich Seiltgen

The Gee Bee Racers of the early 1930s created winners and widows

By Friedrich Seiltgen

The world’s first jump jet: How we got the legendary Harrier II

By Friedrich Seiltgen

Why Saddam Hussein buried Iraq’s air force in the desert

By Blake Stilwell

If the F-47 is named after Trump, here are the namesakes of America’s other fighter jets

How fighter jets can ‘headbutt’ enemy planes

Midnight Hammer was the second-longest bombing mission: The B-2 also flew the longest

By Miguel Ortiz

Why a principal designer of the Stealth Bomber is in a supermax prison

By Blake Stilwell

This look inside the B-2 Bomber is so detailed it should be classified

By Warrior Scout

Aviation nerds are mourning Iran’s F-14 Tomcats

The British Air Force One is also an aerial tanker

By Miguel Ortiz

$580 million contract awarded to Raytheon for new Navy jammer

By Miguel Ortiz

F-47 fighter, Next Generation Air Dominance contract, awarded to Boeing

By Miguel Ortiz

Being a drone operator is getting harder and harder

The last surviving RAF pilot from the Battle of Britain dies at 105

By Miguel Ortiz

Delta Airlines used to fly the Lockheed Hercules cargo plane

By Miguel Ortiz

5 types of military aircraft that California uses to fight fires

By Miguel Ortiz

The proposal to turn the A-10 Warthog into a firefighter

By Miguel Ortiz

RTX’s Raytheon awarded $590 million production contract for Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band

By Tessa Robinson

The Air Force said goodbye to its last KC-10 Extender aerial tanker

By Miguel Ortiz

The old Air Force One’s last mission was just before 9/11

By Miguel Ortiz

The new Marine One flew President Joe Biden for the first time

By Miguel Ortiz

An AC-130 gunship refueled and rearmed on a highway in Arkansas

By Miguel Ortiz

Air Force’s newest tanker flies around the world for the first time

By Miguel Ortiz

5 real aircraft that wouldn’t die

This top-secret bomber spied on Americans in Normandy

Why the B-52 Bomber no longer activates its tail guns

6 differences between the Air Force’s F-16 and the Navy’s F-18

By Harold C. Hutchison

The B-32 Dominator was the B-29 Superfortress’ WWII understudy

By Miguel Ortiz

Airmen volunteered to repair a WWII B-29 Superfortress … and it’s going to fly again

By Tessa Robinson

This B-29 is the only bomber to become a jet ace

By Miguel Ortiz

5 differences between Navy and Air Force fighter pilots

That time the Army put a laser on an Apache attack helicopter

This attack plane turned the enemy into grease spots

By Harold C. Hutchison

This monster aircraft was the helicopter version of the AC-130 gunship

What it took to fly the world’s first stealth attack jet

The amazing thing the SR-71 did the day before its retirement

By Blake Stilwell

The real-life TOPGUN advisors made cameos in ‘Top Gun’ and ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

By Miguel Ortiz

Navy helicopters sunk Iran-backed Houthi boats

By Miguel Ortiz

The C-2 Greyhound is subbing in for the grounded CMV-22 Osprey

By Miguel Ortiz

5 things you didn’t know about the Su-57 5th-generation fighter

By Miguel Ortiz

This ‘Herky Bird’ is a favorite of Rangers and special operators

By Harold C. Hutchison

One of the world’s most famous Soviet defectors has passed

The first nuclear bomber became a tanker for fighter jets

By Miguel Ortiz

WATCH: B-21 Raider stealth bomber flies for first time

By Miguel Ortiz

This might be the most important moment in Marine Corps aviation

By Jessica Evans

Why the US Air Force shot down an allied drone in Syria

This tiny WWII prop plane used mounted bazookas against German tanks

Today in military history: USAF pilot scores first jet-to-jet combat victory

This rare Army award is given to aviators who expertly crash