Among the survivors of the relentless, high-altitude peril during World War II was a 23-year-old Army Air Force captain, R.C. Franklin of Mojave.

Throughout the Cold War, military planners on both sides of the Iron Curtain built weapons designed to deter the unthinkable. Yet several of those systems came dangerously close to coming active and ...

In September 1914, a single German U-boat ventured into the North Sea. Lieutenant Otto Weddigen’s U-9 slipped past patrols and found itself within range of a British cruiser squadron. What followed ...

France's Farman F.224 airliner began as a luxury transport but was repurposed for troops and lost in World War II.

In the opening pages of the narrative that anchors The Sun Rises in the East, winter arrives harshly in Bengal in 2045. Climate systems have tipped into erratic ...

B Mercury, or 'Doomsday Plane,' was seen performing exercises near Fresno Yosemite International Airport on Sunday.

“We can confirm that a B-21 Raider flight test aircraft completed a test event involving a close-proximity flight with a KC-135 Stratotanker,” the spokesperson said in an emailed statement. “This ...

Photographers captured some incredible images of the B-21 Raider refueling from a KC-135 during a test over the Mojave Desert. A Northrop Grumman B-21 ...

Strategic bombing with conventional weapons, like the United States is doing in Iran, has never forced unconditional ...

The Queen has said she is “delighted” a new book is educating children about the Second World War, adding it was “so ...

An aviation museum in Southern Utah known for its unique planes just finished restoring a 1950s Soviet fighter jet, one of several planes they use to educate the public on aviation history.