A U2 spy plane has crashed in Northern rural California. One pilot was killed and another injured when the spy plane crashed shortly after takeoff Tuesday morning. Shortly after takeoff from Beale View More ›
On the 15th Anniversary of 9/11, a former Naval Aviator gives us his story while on board the USS ENTERPRISE in the Middle East. By CDR William “Libby” Lind Lots View More ›
Watch this gnarly 360 video of an F-18C perform a double immelman at the New York Airshow, September 3, 2016 Top Photo credit: F-18C from VFA-106, Olivier Van Wonteghem, Vero Beach View More ›
For decades the B-52 Stratofortess provided continuous support in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. The aircraft was pivotal in ending the Vietnam War and has been the symbol for USPACOM’s continuous bomber View More ›
This opinion piece by former SECNAV John Lehman originally appeared in the Naval Proceedings Magazine in September 2011. By John Lehman The swaggering-flyer mystique forged over the past century has been View More ›
The F-35 Integrated Test Force at Edwards AFB recently completed 25 missions with Block 3F software comprised of 12 weapons delivery accuracy (WDA’s) and 13 weapon separation tests. The F-35’s newest View More ›
Editor’s Note: We recently saw a story that portrayed the DoD’s cost per flight hour of military aircraft. So we asked our resident FighterSweep financial expert and former F/A-18 pilot Brett View More ›
Two American fighter pilots who intercepted Syrian combat jets over northern Syria last week said they came within 2,000 feet of the planes. The Syrians were never aware they were View More ›
The USS Independence, a WWII aircraft carrier sitting on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean 30 miles off the coast of Northern California, as seen from an unmanned submersible. It View More ›
The F-35 still has a a long way to go according to a memo from the Defense Department Operational Test and Evaluation Directorate. Multiple problems and deficiencies still exist. Here View More ›