Category: Fitness and Health

For decades, the need for stealth and agility has driven the evolution of American fighter planes, pushing engineers and pilots to rethink what a fighter

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More than two decades of radio silence since the last Concorde landing have followed, but the vision of commercial supersonic flight is taking off again—this

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Few combat aircraft have been able to leave as lasting an impression on aviation history as the F-14 Tomcat. Rolled out during the Cold War,

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Few fighter aircraft have changed carrier aviation in the post-World War II period as profoundly as the F/A-18 Hornet and its bigger, more powerful sibling,

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Few naval moments since the age of sail have represented so well the synergy of technology, tactics, and brute firepower as the night fight between

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The A-10 Thunderbolt II, or Warthog for that matter, is more than a mere military aircraft. Since the 1970s, it has gained the admiration of

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The 100th Bomb Group, also colloquially known as the “Bloody Hundredth,” occupies a special niche in the history of World War II air combat. They

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The Boeing-Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche is still one of the most daring—and most educational—episodes in the history of U.S. military aviation. As the Army’s definitive stealth

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The North American F-100 Super Sabre is one such old-fashioned jet that was representative of the Cold War era. It was not just another fighter

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In the ferocious rush of World War II, the U.S. was scrambling to build fighters capable of outboxing the enemy machines, and the Fisher P-75

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In the rapidly changing security landscape of today, the U.S. Air Force is reconsidering how to control the skies. That change is represented in the

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It’s frustrating to lose your keys, but to lose a nuclear bomb is on another scale altogether. But back in the Cold War, the U.S.

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