At 50, C-130 still important USAF prop
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She's turning 50 Monday, and by all accounts she's still got the moves. The C-130 Hercules was born Aug.
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FORT WORTH -- Here in Hangar 8, three shifts of Lockheed Martin technicians assemble F-16s, one of the most powerful and widely used fighter jets in history. They work tediously by hand -- bolt by bolt, wire by wire -- turning the plane's belly into a colorful work of industrial art later covered...
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By BEN STOCKING  DANANG, Vietnam - More than 30 years after the Vietnam War ended, the poisonous legacy of Agent Orange has emerged anew with a scientific study that has found extraordinarily high levels of health-threatening contamination at the former U.S. air base at Danang.
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The nationâs fleet of commercial planes is aging as carriers put off buying more comfortable and fuel-efficient jets.
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Although some suspect missing WWII bomb may be the cause, Air Force officials say the warhead does not carry the plutonium needed for a nuclear blast but that it does carry 400 pounds of explosives.
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(CBS/AP) As a fighter pilot for the Texas Air National Guard, then-Lt. George W. Bush was assigned to fly F-102&#39;s out of Houston&#39;s Ellington Air Force Base.
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The United States has satisfied about 70 percent of the military&#39;s combat armored vehicle requirements in the Middle East and surrounding regions.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dec. 11 -- Since the end of World War II, it has been part of the lore of America's first black fighter pilots: The Tuskegee Airmen never lost a bomber to enemy fire.
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A U.S. Navy aircraft carrier battle group is heading from Hong Kong to the shores of Sumatra. The first of many Air Force C-130 cargo planes has landed in Indonesia with a load of blankets, plastic sheeting and medicines.
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Two C-130 crews from the 38th Airlift Squadron, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, flew medical and humanitarian supplies here Sept 6. The crews dropped off approximately 36,000 pounds of medical and humanitarian ...
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The Air Force will keep more than 40 percent of its older model F-15 fighter jets grounded indefinitely after discovering that critical support beams have manufacturing flaws dating back nearly 30 years that could lead to catastrophic damage to the aircraft.
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Image: Technicians in front of NASA&#39;s third X-43A scramjet go over a pre-flight checklist on Nov. 15, 2004. NASA photo by Tom Tschida.
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Technology may reduce midair collisions, but it wonÂt eliminate them.
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A Dutch scientist says technology can improve some aspects of aviation during the next 50 years, but not enough to compensate for air travel growth.
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An end to a 47-year requirement that pilots retire at 60 would bring the United States in line with international practice.
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By Rick Alm, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Feb. 1--When the 147-acre Marine Corps Support Activity base at the former Richards-Gebaur Airport closes in 2011, 27 acres could be set aside for the homeless.
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WASHINGTON -- Nearly 30 years after the end of the Vietnam War, the United States is increasing aid to help remove unexploded ordnance that continues to kill people in the former war zone, especially in Laos, where 2 million tons of bombs were dropped.