Lt. Col. William “Skate” Park led a squadron of Air Force F-16s in the Middle East, and defended the USS Harry S. Truman from ...

An Air Force squadron commander who led a history-making deployment to the Middle East was presented with the military's ...

In a future war, pilots may have to continue missions without consistent communications from commanders, forcing them to ...

An Air Force citation obtained by Business Insider describes how the pilot survived a harrowing mission in enemy airspace.

The pilot was in stable condition after losing control of the fighter jet near Trona, Calif., about 180 miles northeast of ...

Air Force F-16 commander Lt. Col. William Parks received a Silver Star for a heroic combat mission, dodging enemy missiles ...

TRONA, Calif. (AP) — A fighter jet with the Air Force’s elite Thunderbirds demonstration squadron crashed in the Southern California desert Wednesday, but the pilot managed to eject safely, the ...

The following is the Nov. 28, 2025, Congressional Research Service in focus report U.S. Air Force Collaborative Combat ...

Philip M. Rasmussen was one of the few American pilots to get into the air in the skies on Dec. 7, 1941. He was still in his ...

When the Korean War began in 1950, the United States entered a new era of air combat it barely understood. Pilots trained for the piston-engine battles of World War II suddenly faced jet fighters that ...

The plane appeared to lose control and dive directly toward the ground just before crashing inside the grounds of the airfield.

An F-16 fighter jet from the elite Thunderbirds demonstration squadron crashed in the Southern California desert during a ...