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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- The Sino-American Aviation Heritage Foundation (SAAHF) announced on Thursday the passing of its founding board member Stephe

The Colorado Air National Guard’s 140th Wing will see a shuffle in leadership Sunday as a new colonel assumes command.

From the ground, air, boat, Wilmington, North Carolina, men played a crucial part in the war across Eurasia.

At dawn on September 30, 1980 four American-made F-4E Phantom jets screamed low over central Iraq, each laden with air-to-air missiles and three thousand pounds of bombs. 

The F-16 was born out of the conundrum experienced by the Air Force in the Vietnam War.

A group of American volunteers took part in the Polish-Bolshevik War of 1919-1920. Among them was the future maker of the famous movie, ‘King Kong’.

Red Flag 21-3 trained next generation joint warfighting against modern threats including the Aggressor F-35s.

Many men from the Wilmington area earned multiple decorations for their time in service during WWII.

Tue, 08/03/2021 - 6:42pm By:  Staff Report The communities of Breckenridge, Mineral Wells and Possum Kingdom Lake may look to the skies and see heightened military air traffic starting next week, as the USAFR’s 301st Fighter Wing’s 475th Fighter Squadron begins training exercises in the area. According to an email and press release from U.S. Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, the F-16 Fighting Falcons training will last two weeks, beginning Monday, Aug. 10 and e...

The Blackbird on display outside the hangar - finally . (image via Dave "Bio" Baranek) In a follow-up to our first article from F-14 Tomcat RIO and TOPGUN instructor Dave “Bio” Baranek this past May, we thought our readers might enjoy this story about his experiences on a TOPGUN training detachment to NAS Key West in Florida, where he came across a stray SR-71 Blackbird in one of the hangars. As you will know from our first article, “Bio” Baranek also worked as an adviser on the 1986 fi...