Fresh out of school, Alton Yates needed to make money, so he signed up for the Air Force. His job? Riding rocket-propelled sleds, to help test... A Teenager In The 1950s, Extreme Sledding For The Air ...

In the mid 1950s, the Department of the Air Force had a manual data communications system for punched card traffic and a separate system for teletype communications. These manual data systems had ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Only five prototypes were built. One did see combat—it flew in support of military rebels who overthrew Perón in 1955. In the end, Argentina ended up with British ...

The establishment of the U.S. Air Force on Sept. 18, 1947, marked the day the Army Air Forces' brown shoes and like equipment would soon see black dye applied. By 1952, the “old brown shoe days” were ...

Tighten the strap on your tinfoil hat: Recently declassified documents show that the US Air Force was working on, and perhaps had already built, a supersonic flying saucer in 1956. The aircraft, which ...

During a relatively obscure service life, often overshadowed by the Boeing B-47, the North American B-45 made a significant ...

The Air Force is turning to half-century-old equipment to get its pilots off the flight lines and back up into the air. The Air Force is turning to half-century-old refueling equipment to get its ...

The U.S. Air Force in early 2020 expects to formally request proposals from industry for replacing the engines on the flying branch’s 76 B-52 bombers. The request for proposals could lead to a ...