Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon used an Air Force One plane known as SAM 970. The first jet-powered presidential aircraft featured an office and a safe for the nuclear codes.

The US Air Force Academy has eliminated race, gender, and ethnicity from its admissions process following a lawsuit alleging discriminatory diversity practices. This policy shift, formalised in ...

Students selected to attend the Air Force Academy may join either the Air Force or the Space Force when they graduate. One of five U.S. service academies, the Air Force Academy's establishment in ...

The US Air Force calls it the “Frankenjet,” a stealth fighter stitched together from the parts of two F-35s wrecked in accidents that is now on duty and combat ready. “’Frankenjet’” is ...

China's air force is capable of denying US superiority in the first island chain, the top US commander in the Pacific said. Adm. Samuel Paparo said that China's fighter fleet, bombers, and ...

The United States deployed B-1B bombers to East Asia earlier this week for multiple geopolitical assignments, first in South Korea and then in Japan. First, the long-range bombers participated ...

“The idea came from carefully considering the role of Air Force Civil Engineers in future conflicts,” said Maj ... Looking ahead, collaboration with the US Army Corps of Engineers will seek to ensure ...

The US Air Force restored an article about Colonel Nicole Malachowski, the first female Thunderbird pilot, after it was removed under a Trump-era policy targeting DEI content. Malachowski criticized ...

US Air Force jets struck several areas in the Houthi-controlled capital of Sana'a in northeast Yemen, Houthi state-TV reported on Friday night. Al Masirah reported that Sana'a had been targeted ...

On Friday, Delta Flight 2389, an Airbus A319 headed for Minneapolis, was cleared for takeoff around 3:15 p.m. ET (1915 GMT), while four U.S. Air Force T-38 ... 500 ft below us" as the commercial ...