At McConnell AFB in Wichita, Kansas, maintenance of KC-135 and KC-46 refueling aircraft is taken very seriously. Meet the two ...

An operational U.S. Air Force KC-135 tanker equipped with an artificial intelligence (AI) driven ‘copilot’ from autonomous ...

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The US Air Force often finds military applications for civilian aircraft, from business jets to interplanetary spaceships.

On June 20, 1981, Theresa Claiborne was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force’s first Black female pilot, Claiborne would become the first Black woman to command and ...

So why does the US military not have a single aircraft that can land on water? The honest answer is that they don't need to ...

The deployment of the 305th EARS represents the beginning of an enduring presence of the KC-46A Pegasus in the CENTCOM AOR, ...

As a space buff, I knew the KC-135 was used to train astronauts for weightlessness. But its main mission is USAF aircraft ...

Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works advanced projects division has put forward a new notional vision for a stealthy pilot-optional ...

If you drive along Tehachapi Boulevard in the vicinity of Kohnen’s Country Bakery, the VFW Post and Auntie’s Em’s Antiques, ...

GRAPEVINE, Texas—The past few years for the U.S. Air Force’s mobility crews have been marked by a constant high pace of ...