The T-7 Red Hawk is meant to teach student pilots how to fly fifth-generation aircraft such as the F-35. Air Force officials laid out their plans for teaching instructor pilots on the T-7, and then ...

Michelle “MACE” Curran made history after she became the second-ever woman to fly as Lead Solo Pilot for the United States Air Force demonstration team, the Thunderbirds, in 2019. Her powerful ...

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The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds perform at the Great Colorado Air Show on Sept. 20, 2025, in Loveland, Colorado. (Staff Sgt. Breanna Klemm/U.S. Air Force) TRONA, Calif. — A fighter jet with the Air ...

Air Force Lt. Col. Phillip “Clean” Bourquin, 99th Flying Training Squadron director of operations, and Steve “Bull” Schmidt, Boeing test pilot, prepare to disembark the T-7A Red Hawk after its ...

Thanks to their miles-high vantage point, aviators develop an outsider’s perspective of life on the ground, like the Apollo 17 astronauts who saw the earth looking like a “blue marble.” In his memoir, ...

NASHUA – After more than 40 years of ownership by three retired U.S. Air Force pilots, an American Aviation Yankee two-seater aircraft was recently transported 60 miles from Rochester to a hangar at ...

“She knew the risk she was taking with the passions that she had, especially when it came to flying,” said Rhoda Bargas of her late friend Kristen Morris A 35-year-old retired Air Force captain died ...

Military officials say a fighter jet with the Air Force's Thunderbirds demonstration squadron has crashed in the Southern California desert. The pilot managed to eject safely and is being treated for ...

TRONA, Calif. (AP) — A fighter jet with the Air Force’s elite Thunderbirds demonstration squadron crashed in the Southern California desert Wednesday, but the pilot managed to eject safely, the ...

TRONA, Calif. — A fighter jet with the Air Force's elite Thunderbirds demonstration squadron crashed in the Southern California desert Wednesday, but the pilot managed to eject safely, the military ...