aviation

The F-22 Raptor is both a beauty and a technological marvel. Here are three things you might not know about it.

The Mcdonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and its variants have served as America’s workhorse interceptor fighters for over 40 years.

You could easily make a list of amazing facts about the SR-71, but here are three facts about it that even a few aviation nerds may not know.

The legendary SR-71 Blackbird could provide us with valuable insight into how hypersonic drones could change the future of warfare.

The one thing that beats any drug is flying; being at the controls of a plane and cranking wrenches on its engine.

The Airborne Tactical Advantage Company (ATAC), partnered with Valkyrie Aero, has landed a contract to provide live Contract Close Air Support (CCAS) for the Air Force Special Operations Command’s Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) training course. According to an article released by the Aviationist, the companies will provide training support at multiple locations throughout the […]

This article was written by Alex Hollings and originally published on Sandboxx. Kelly Johnson wasn’t the first man to build an airplane. Nor was he the first to push the limits of what an airplane could do. But few men have played a more vital role than Johnson in shaping mankind’s ascent into the skies. […]

After two years of research and testing, the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and Texas A&M University have made major developments in fluid-structure interaction testing, thus creating a tool that enables researchers to process aircraft structure designs in record time. The end goal of this cutting edge tool is to design an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) […]

Afghanistan’s premier Special Operations Aviation unit is slotted to receive an unspecified number of CH-47 Chinooks from the U.S. Established in 2005, the Special Mission Wing (SMW) is the cream of the crop of the AAF. With less than 1,000 pilots and ground personnel in its ranks, the unit was initially designed to support counter-narcotics […]

A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon successfully shot down a mock cruise missile over the Gulf of Mexico, marking the first airborne intercept of a cruise missile with a GR-20A Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System. As missile technology continues to mature, a number of national militaries have made missile defense a high priority; the […]

In the first reported total loss of one of Russia’s exceedingly rare fifth-generation Sukhoi Su-57 “stealth” fighters, one of the jets crashed approximately 68 miles from the Komsomolsk-on-Amur aircraft plant in Russia, where it was likely built. The pilot ejected from the aircraft safely and was recovered soon after the incident by Russian military MI-8 […]

Aviation and Special Operations go hand-in-hand. Whether it is rotary-wing or fixed-wing, SOF units have been using SOF aircraft to increase their effectiveness and lethality. Recognizing the lack of a dedicated SOF aviation program, NATO has decided to launch a training facility that aims to bring together the Alliance’s elite aviation units for training. The […]