pilot training

The T-7A Red Hawk is delayed, but upgrades and new incentives promise a cutting-edge jet to revolutionize pilot training.

Denmark is calling its F-35 training jets back home due to delays in a critical software upgrade, sparking anxieties among European allies.

Saab’s $102M deal with Boeing elevates the T-7A Red Hawk, promising advanced capabilities and innovation in aerospace.

An F-16 Fighting Falcon assigned to the 36th Fighter Squadron (FS) taxis on the runway before flight during a training mission at Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Dec. 28, 2022. The 36th FS regularly conducts training missions to increase readiness and to enable pilots to utilize strategies to increase their lethality in combat situations. […]

C.W. Lemoine has overcome a lot of adversity in his career flying fighters, and his story is best summed up by this: “Make them tell you no!”

Instructor pilots from the 8th Flying Training Squadron practice formation flying July 24, 2020, in the sky over Oklahoma. Instructor pilots conduct continuation training regularly in order to keep their instructor rating.

Former F-16 fighter pilot Nate “Buster” Jaros takes us along for a ride in the Centrifuge and tells us what it is like to feel 9G’s crushing your body. You are basically put into a small coffin. It swings a little as you enter, reminiscent of how a gondola swings on its wire, or how […]

If you’re asking “How do I become a U.S. Air Force pilot,” then read this first post in our series, “So you want to be an Air Force Pilot?”

In national security and defense analysis circles, we tend to give China and Russia’s fifth-generation fighter programs a fair amount of real estate when it comes to headlines and think-pieces. So much so, that many could be forgiven for assuming that these two nations, both considered “near peers” to the United States in terms of […]

In national security and defense analysis circles, we tend to give China and Russia’s fifth-generation fighter programs a fair amount of real estate when it comes to headlines and think-pieces. So much so, that many could be forgiven for assuming that these two nations, both considered “near peers” to the United States in terms of […]

Update: Laughlin Air Force Base posted the following statement regarding the crash on it’s Facebook page late Wednesday night: The members involved in the T-38 Talon incident from Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, on Nov. 13, 2018, have been identified. The deceased, Capt. John F. Graziano, 28, was an instructor pilot with the 87th Flying […]

At approximately 7:40 p.m. local time on Tuesday, an Air Force T-38 Talon crashed near Laughlin Air Force Base in Del Rio, Texas. One crew member died in the crash and the other is currently hospitalized. The Air Force has yet to reveal the second crew member’s identity or condition. Details regarding this most recent […]