The USAF aircraft maintenance program continues to evolve as America strengthens it warfighting posture worldwide.

On this day in aviation history, January 19, 1946, the Bell X-1 high-speed research aircraft, made its first flight. While this first flight was in fact a gliding test, the X-1 would become the first ...

the B-21 Raider has passed initial ground and flight tests, as well as crucial checks of load-bearing structures and will proceed to a fatigue testing campaign. Engineers, test pilots, Air Force ...

A U.S. Air Force jet with migrants bound at their wrists and ankles departed Texas for Guatemala on Thursday, carrying 80 deportees in another deportation flight that reflects a growing role for ...

Then, after acoustic testing over California's Edwards Air Force Base and Armstrong Flight Research Center, NASA will fly the ...

In the interactive Aeronauts Gallery visitors can take a pilot aptitude test ... museum’s set of immersive experiences. There’s the 4D theatre with a moving seat and smoke effects, the flight ...

A Bombardier Challenger jet on a test flight crashed on takeoff from Mid ... of fuel crashed shortly after takeoff from McConnell Air Force Base into a neighborhood at 20th and Piatt in Wichita.

The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, later becoming NASA), the newly formed U.S. Air Force ... first XLR11-engaged X-1 flight occurred in 1946. The test pilot, Chalmers ...

A midair collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines flight killed all 67 people aboard the two ...

History had other ideas At the height of the space race in the 1960s, Air Force Captain Ed Dwight was chosen to ... (U.S.

the National Air and Space Museum, the Air Force Flight Test Museum, the National Naval Aviation Museum and the National Air Force Museum of Canada. Merrett’s long-term goal is to expand the ...