Watch: Britain’s First F-35 Stealth Fighters at RAF Marham from South Carolina

The next generation of fighter aircraft for the RAF and the Royal Navy have landed at their new home in Marham, Norfolk. The F-35 Lightning stealth warplanes each cost nearly £100m. Britain has 15 of the short take-off and vertical landing aircraft and will buy 138 in total from American aviation giant Lockheed Martin. They […]

Air Force Cancels $24 Million Dollars Refrigerators for Air Force One

A $24 million dollar order of two refrigerators produced by Boeing and intended for operation on Air Force One was canceled by the Air Force and the White House Military Office. The cancellation was announced on Monday in a statement by Rep. Joe Courtney, the ranking member of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection […]

Watch: Take a Ride on the Kitty Hawk Flyer – Learn to Fly in Less Than One Hour!

“It’s as easy to use as playing Minecraft,” Kitty Hawk CEO Sebastian Thrun said as we watched my colleague Rachel Crane pull on a motorcycle helmet. Rachel and I had just flown into Las Vegas for an exclusive first look at the Silicon Valley single-seat flying machine, Flyer. Kitty Hawk, funded by Google co-founder Larry […]

Two Die in Crash of Siemens-Powered eFusion Electric Airplane

Two pilots were killed in a crash involving the Siemens-powered Magnus eFusion electric aircraft on Thursday morning in Hungary, local police reported. The aircraft was reportedly flown after a party to celebrate the new company headquarters. Neither pilot has been identified, but one, a 61-year-old, was believed to be part of Magnus Aircraft. Witnesses reported […]

Watch: The Cormorant – Self Flying Rescue Vehicle

The Cormorant, a self-flying vehicle could be used to rescue soldiers on remote battlefields. In the words of Philip Werthman, a California-based adviser to the board of Urban Aeronautics: “It is real, it is flying, and we are going to have it here in the United States in the next few years.” The “it’ Werthman […]

Watch: Inside Look! B-1 Pilots and Crew Members Gear Up

B-1 Pilots and Crew Members gear up, perform pre-flight checks with various footage of the cockpit and instrument panels – then they taxi and takeoff at Dyess Air Force Base in Texas. The official designation of this long-range supersonic bomber is B-1 Lancer, but it has a nickname… “The Bone” which is a derivative name […]