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A U.S. Air Force Thunderbird pilot was forced to eject from an F-16 during a training sortie over Southern California on Wednesday, drifting down under a parachute while the jet plowed into a dry lake bed near the town of Trona.
The 99th Flying Training Squadron will soon begin integrating the T-7A Red Hawk as the primary trainer for Air Force pilots.
Lt. Col. William “Skate” Park led a squadron of Air Force F-16s in the Middle East, and defended the USS Harry S. Truman from attack.
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Ukraine air force sets new record—destroys $500M of Russian arsenal by hitting 1,300 targets
Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine turned the country's skies into a nightly battleground long before Western F-16s arrived. By mid-2024, however, a quiet shift was underway: a small fleet of modern Western fighters began to reshape how Ukraine defended its cities,
An Air Force citation obtained by Business Insider describes how the pilot survived a harrowing mission in enemy airspace.
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‘High-G maneuvers’ amid enemy missiles earn USAF pilot Silver Star
An Air Force squadron commander who led a history-making deployment to the Middle East was presented with the military’s third-highest combat award.
Retired pilot Ehsan Khalid walked through the exact sequence of faults that triggered Airbus's global grounding of thousands of A320-family aircraft.
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The Air Force Pilot Who Died Chasing a “Metallic Object of Tremendous Size”
It began as a routine investigation of an unidentified object… and ended in one of the most controversial aviation deaths in history. While other pilots abandoned the chase due to dangerously thin air,