The propeller-driven Skyraider II pays homage to the Cold War-era propeller plane that delivered close air support during the ...

ROLLING THUNDER's op-tempo was so high that it required 114 aircraft, 196 (4-man) aircrews, flying 130 sorties per day, seven ...

American aircraft played a huge role in the Vietnam War, and high on the list were the nation's fighter jets. Here are five ...

The Air Force provided statistics on how many of each kind of aircraft it had in 2024, as well as the percentage of time each ...

The US Air Force unveils the Skyraider II, a modernized Vietnam-style combat plane built for close air support, ISR, and ...

The Skyraider II is the latest aircraft to pay homage to a legendary plane. The original A-1 Skyraider flew from 1946 to the ...

The Air Force’s decision to award the contract to Fairchild Republic—which went on to build the A-10 Warthog—proved to be one of the greatest decisions Pentagon acquisitions experts have ever made.

Those analysts said aircraft availability rates are a truer ... C-5 Galaxy and KC-135 Stratotanker — that were around during the Vietnam War. Air Force officials commonly refer to such planes ...

Following this direction, on March 3, 1955, the Ministry of National Defence decided to establish the Airport Research ...

Near the end of the war in Vietnam, an American-built Northrop F-5 fighter in South Vietnamese markings dropped bombs on the South Vietnamese Independence ...

Modern aircraft flew side-by-side with World War II, Korea and Vietnam-era planes at the Heritage Flight Training Course at ...