Structural Flaws May Ground Older F-15s Indefinitely
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Air Force inspectors have discovered major structural flaws in eight older-model F-15 fighters, sparking a new round of examinations that could ground all of the older jets into January or beyond, senior Air Force and defense officials said.
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Nearly two years after Columbia shattered in the sky, NASA still has no way of repairing the kind of holes that could doom another shuttle, space agency officials acknowledged
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U.S. passenger and cargo airlines on   Tuesday sought to stop, or at least change, a Federal Aviation   Administration proposal to overhaul management of structural   fatigue in older aircraft.
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The decision on how to fix the aging Hubble Space Telescope -- or whether to do it at all -- could hinge on how much it costs and which part of NASA pays for the repair, aeronautics experts said on Wednesday.
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The space shuttle may begin flying before NASA has a reliable plan to fix damage similar to that which doomed the Columbia shuttle in February 2003, the manager of the shuttle program said Monday.
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Without radical strategic change, the legacy carriers won't survive.
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An eight-year effort to upgrade the computers for the nation's air traffic control system is "facing obsolescence" before it has been completed, the Department of Transportation inspector general said in a report released yesterday.
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Federal investigators have largely ruled out a design flaw as a central factor in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers.
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Japan plans to postpone buying  next-generation fighter aircraft to replace part of its ageing  air force fleet because the United States is unwilling to  export its state-of-the-art F-22 stealth fighter, a newspaper  said on Monday.
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Too heavy for the bomb racks, apparently The World War II style 14-tonne conventional bunker-busting penetrator bomb being developed for the US air force has hit development snags, according to reports. Entry to service will be delayed, and costs have risen.â¦
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NASA had briefly considered delaying next Tuesdayâs mission after an independent group of engineers raised concerns about microscopic cracks in three heat shield panels that protect the shuttleâs wings.
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If aerial dogfights were still part of warfare, the F-22 would give the U.S. an edge. But today, they are the stuff of video games
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From afar, the ghostly warships recall a fierce phalanx ready for battle. A closer look, though, shows the rust and rot of ships unfit for duty or even dismantling, a quandary that is costing taxpayers millions of dollars and could cause environmental misery that will cost millions more.
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One misstep on this former U.S. Navy bombing range can be fatal.
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Air Force officials are warning that unless their budget is increased dramatically, and soon, the military's high-flying branch won't dominate the skies as it has for decades
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Fred Eisert of the Air Force Research Laboratory Propulsion Directorate knows the true meaning of the words 'You never know what you have until it's gone.' He's lived it through a two-year reserve deployment to ...
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SAN MATEO, Calif., Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite an official French report declaring that a metal strip that fell off a Continental DC-10, and a fuel tank design flaw on the Concorde, were directly responsible