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65 Years Ago Today: The Man Who Flew A B-47 Under The Mighty Mackinaw Bridge

Bomber Bridge Buzz Tops Maverick’s Tower Blast By A Bunch- But Is It Baloney?  We’ve all seen the fictional tower buzz scene from Top Gun....

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Air Force Reserve C-130J-30 Super Hercules Prepare To Take Over Aerial Spray Ops From C-130Hs

The 910th AW (Airlift Wing) prepares to upgrade its C-130H Hercules fleet to new C-130J Super Hercules for aerial spray missions. Based at Youngstown Air...

National Guard wish list would restore fighters cut from 2025 budget

The National Guard’s budgetary wish list would restore the dozen fighter jets the Air Force trimmed in its original fiscal 2025 request, and allow...

National Guard wish list would restore fighters cut from FY25 budget

The National Guard’s budgetary wish list would restore the dozen fighter jets the U.S. Air Force trimmed in its original fiscal 2025 request, and...

25 Years Ago Today: An U.S. F-117 Stealth Jet Is Shot Down Over Serbia

OTD in 1999, “Vega 31” was shot down near Belgrade. Here’s how it went. On Mar. 27, 1999, during the fourth night of Operation Allied...

Congress offers procurement boost for F-35 jets in FY24 spending bill

The U.S. Air Force would receive enough money to buy 51 F-35A fighter jets in fiscal 2024 under the compromise Pentagon spending bill lawmakers...

F-15EX Delivery To Operational Units Nears With Maiden Flight Of First Jet Destined To 142nd FW

F-15EX-008 is the first planned to be delivered to the 142nd Fighter Wing of the Oregon Air National Guard. The introduction into operational service of...

Canopy Sill Longeron Cracks Caused The Grounding Of 90 USAF F-16s Within The Past Year

Cracks on the canopy sill longerons are affecting the U.S. Air Force inventory of F-16s. An interesting article recently published by the 140th Wing Public...

U.S. Air Force F-16 And F-35 Demo Teams Announce Their New Pilots

Capt. Taylor “FEMA” Hiester and Capt. Melanie “MACH” Kluesner became the new certified pilots of the F-16 Viper Demo Team and F-35A Lightning II...

Timeline on returning Ospreys to flight remains murky, Air Force says

AURORA, Colo. — The Air Force still isn’t sure when it might resume flying the CV-22 Osprey, more than two months after an Osprey...

National Guard boss: US can still fund Ukraine F-16 training — for now

The National Guard still has enough money on hand to finish training Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighter jets despite the U.S. running out of...

How The U.S. Air Force Will Keep Its F-16s Flying Into The 2040s

The U.S. F-16 fleet is undergoing the largest modification work in history with the Post Block Integration Team. Now that the F-16 is 50, it...

The F-16 And The World Of Flight Simulation

Among all videogames featuring the Viper, Falcon BMS and DCS World are the most accurate representations of the F-16, a civilian can get his/her...

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