It’s a rare opportunity indeed to take a flight to above 70,000 feet. It’s even rarer to do that in the venerable U-2 spy ...

The flights are notable not only for their proximity to the island’s coast, but for the suddenness of their appearance and ...

Once the A-12 was approved, the real struggle began. Lockheed had to build an aircraft that could survive temperatures hot ...

Ordinary jet fuel would boil and combust inside the Blackbird’s fuel tanks—meaning the aircraft must use a special fuel blend ...

The U-2 costs more and more to fly, is extremely demanding of its pilots, and is no longer essential for intelligence collection with the advent of drones and satellites. The U-2 Dragon Lady is ...

California-based aerospace company Airhart Aeronautics recently completed test flights of its new cockpit avionics suite for small planes at the company's Long Beach facility. We sat down with Airhart ...

NAPLES, Italy — For the first time in more than two decades there are three aircraft carriers, along with hundreds of Navy aircraft and thousands of sailors and Marines, deployed to the Middle East, U ...

A Southwest Airlines captain was incapacitated by a falling screen in his aircraft’s cockpit just as the plane was about to take off, according to the company. The incident, which involved the pilot ...

A UPS cargo jet aborted its landing Tuesday at a Kentucky airport to avoid another aircraft on the runway, according to reports about a close call at the same airport where a deadly crash occurred ...

If you’re out of work and happen to be looking for a career change, Lockheed Martin is hiring. The only catch is, you have to be a highly skilled airplane pilot who enjoys dancing with death. That’s ...

NASHVILLE—The Army’s next-generation spy plane will begin flight tests this summer, then be delivered to the first units later this year—two years after the Army awarded Sierra Nevada Corporation $1 ...