The U.S. Air Force is narrowing its focus on new combinations of factors as it explores hypoxia events that claimed the life of one F-22 pilot and plagued the fleet for more than a year. Service officials remain frustrated, that a “smoking gun” for the cause is still elusive despite an… Read more
Remember that runway overrun by an F-16C at Oshkosh last summer see it on video here? Plenty of armchair pilots speculated about why it might have happened, with possible causes centering on a what many presumed was a brake problem or perhaps too high an airspeed on final. It turns out that not… Read more
A story that appeared Wednesday in The New York Times — but which actually dates back more than a year — reported on a U.S. Air Force program that takes lightly used, corporate-configured King Airs and turns them into spy planes — the newly named Liberty MC-12, which are used to gather… Read more
This General Motors built Grumman TBM Avenger was just one of many warbirds present at this years show at Detroit’s Willow Run airport (KYIP). This years show highlighted 100 Years of Naval Aviation and featured an impressive lineup of aircraft. Two of our photographers were lucky enough… Read more
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