F 15c Eagle News Today

For the Air Force, finding a way to permanently keep fighters at Kadena Air Base will require some balancing -- and negotiation with lawmakers and the DoD.

Caught up in plans to revamp the aging fleet of airplanes it uses, the U.S. Air Force still has to rely on decades-old machines to conduct its business. One of these machines is the four decades-old F-15C Eagle.

49 years. That’s how long it passed since a company called McDonnell Douglas introduced the F-15 Eagle, a tactical fighter that has grown into one of the most successful airplanes of its kind, with over 1,100 of them made to date.

Bird and airplanes might share the same medium, but they don’t have to be friends. They don’t have to be enemies either, but on more than one occasion, the encounters between the beings made of flesh and the contraptions made of metal have ended in tragedy.

Is it that time of the year again when you’re looking to refresh the appearance of the screens you’re staring at all day, but are at a loss as to what wallpaper to choose? Well, you might want to consider giving this photo here a shot, supplied by our friends working for the United States Air Force (USAF).

The Battle of Britain was a collection of countless aerial encounters between German and British pilots that span for over 3 months. Over 4,000 pilots lost their lives during that time, and over 3,700 planes were shot to bits, making the event one of the fiercest, longest and deadliest of this kind the world has ever known.

For as long as aviation has been part of our lives, people have also had a long list of expectations when it comes to what constitutes an airplane: it has to have a more or less cylinder-shaped body, two large wings, one to each side, and two smaller ones on the tail, and of course, engine in various, yet visible positions on the fuselage.

The Air Force has made some progress integrating new infrared search and track technology onto the F-15C Eagle.

WINDHAM, Vt. (AP) — Fighter jets from the Massachusetts Air National Guard will be...