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Breaking: Blue Angels Announce Return

The Blue Angels announced Saturday that they will return to the skies at Traverse City, Michigan on July 2-4. The Blues had suspended three previously scheduled shows after the fatal View More ›

Flight 804: Egypt Fails to Extract Data from Black Boxes

Breaking News: Damaged flight recorders from the EgyptAir aircraft that crashed last month will be sent to France for repairs, Egyptian investigators say Egypt officials were unable to extract any View More ›

Next to Last Doolittle Raid Crewman Dies

From Associated Press reports: One of the last two surviving members of the Doolittle Raiders — who bombed Japan in an attack that stunned that nation and boosted U.S. morale View More ›

The F-22 Raptor: Back From the Grave?

The Pentagon collected its final F-22 Raptor from Lockheed Martin Corp. four years ago. Amid the Cold War’s end and shrinking defense budgets, the most advanced fighter jet ever built was deemed View More ›

U.S. Approves 6 Airlines for Direct Flights to Cuba

The Obama administration on Friday authorized six American air carriers to begin direct flights to Cuba as soon as this fall, paving the way for the resumption of scheduled air travel between View More ›

Watch: T-50A Advanced Trainer/Light Attack Aircraft First Flight

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) successfully completed the initial flight test of its T-50A configured aircraft. The T-50A is the company’s aircraft offering in the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Pilot Training competition. “The View More ›

Russia grounds Su-27 jets after crash

The warplane, part of the Russian Knights aerobatic team, crashed near Moscow after the team took part in the opening ceremony for a monument to aviators in Ashukino, Tass said. View More ›

F-16s that crashed over Georgia high-tech, but built in 1993

The pilots at the controls of the two F-16 jets that collided over Georgia this week are seasoned combat veterans — and so are the jets they were flying. The View More ›

Watch: Bremont Horsemen take to the sky in Chicago

Prepare for take off… The Bremont Horsemen Flight Team take to the skies this weekend over Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series Chicago with their ORACLE TEAM USA timepieces. More information about a Force12 Media View More ›

MC-21: Russians hail new airliner as better than Boeing or Airbus

Russia has unveiled a medium-range passenger plane that state media hailed as superior in many ways to western-made counterparts. In a glitzy Siberian ceremony attended by the prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev, View More ›

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