Air Force Flight Simulators May Help Cut Training Costs
Flight training is costly. The Air Force spends roughly $2.6 million to train a fighter pilot and roughly $600,000 …
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A Herd of Hercs, a Knot of Phrogs, and a Warthog’s Welcome Home l Military Photos
Periodically we’ll be sharing favorite military photos we’ve come across in putting together our various publications and the DMN website. …
Two F-35Bs Operate From USS Wasp
Two Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters operated from USS Wasp (LHD 1) for 18 days of sea …
The Blue Angels: A 65 Year History
At the end of World War II, the Chief of Naval Operations, Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, ordered the formation …
F-22 Raptors Grounded at Langley Air Force Base
The U.S. Air Force’s on-again, off-again saga with the grounding of its F-22 Raptor superfighter fleet took a new twist …
Marine Cobras in Iraq: Naval Aviation Through the Decades
Entering a new century, the U.S. naval aviation weathered 9/11, fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, reduced its carrier force (to …
F-35B Landing at Sea
The Marine Corps variant of the Joint Strike Fighter, the F-35B, lands on the flight deck of USS Wasp (LHD …
Tomcats Over the Desert: Naval Aviation Through the Decades
When Operation Desert Storm began, the F-14 Tomcat was the only in-service fighter in the U.S. inventory to have scored …
Preparing the F-35C for the Carrier
As thousands on the flight line at Joint Base Andrews outside of Washington, D.C., craned their necks skyward during the …
And the Fighter of the Future is … the Super Hornet?
With the world’s air forces scrambling to fill anticipated gaps in their fighter inventories, is it possible that the fighter …