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For you fans of the dead sexy Rockwell (Boeing) B-1B Lancer, we present 10 fun facts about this magnificent aircraft, as well as some AWESOME imagery.

In this day and age, not only do most people never get to experience something as extraordinary as flying, but many don’t know that it is actually an option for them. Whether it is to pursue a career or just for fun, it is my dream and passion to open as many minds to the possibility of flight as possible. I want to share my love for aviation with the world by inspiring people to dream beyond the limiting factors they’ve set for themselves.

Check out this Boeing F-15C, assigned to the 422 TES, which is painted up as the United States Air Force Warfare Center Flagship.

The USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group is on its way to the Gulf of Aden, ready to assist in evacuations and operations in Yemen.

First the X-47B UCAS took off from and landed on an aircraft carrier. Now it’s completed an aerial refueling from an Omega KC-707 tanker.

Two F/A-18A+ Hornets and their pilots are struck by lightning mid-flight. Can they recover their bearings and get back to base safely?

Boeing and the USAF’s timeline for 18 KC-46s for an August 2017 IOC is in jeopardy, and the manufacturer wants to cut corners on the testing program.

Despite Sentry Savannah being a fighter-centric exercise, air mobility personnel were already hard at work even before it had officially begun. A dozen C-130 Hercules and 5 C-17 Globemaster IIIs transports brought in personnel and cargo in preparation for the exercise, and they hit the ground running. “The deployment process is very similar to that of going […]

Our idea of air superiority is not that we win the fight like the RAF won the Battle of Britain, but that we win the fight in the other guy’s airspace…

Check out some more Swamp Fox F-16CJ burner goodness, with this video from our good friends at the 169FW! Semper Primus!

With all the debate about drone strikes and their effectiveness, little has been said about the challenges presented by alternative methods of finishing the targets that are currently the domain of drones.

Campaign finance reform. That’s it. Nothing more, nothing less. Campaign finance reform is what motivated a 61-year-old mailman from Ruskin, Florida to load up his gyrocopter and 535 letters to Congress on a trailer and drive to within a flight’s distance from the U.S. Capitol. He wanted to deliver the letters in an attention-grabbing manner […]