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Two fighter pilots willing to sacrifice their own lives to save countless others scrambled to stop Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, before hijackers could crash it into the U.S. Capitol.
To handle these moments, fighter pilots perform an anti-G exercise and wear special compression suits that prevents blood from pooling in the legs. If they don’t manage the Gs correctly, they ...
Hunt said that, in 1979, while still in high school, he joined the Marine Corps on a delayed-entry program for recruits who ...
Nearly 30 years since its first test flight in 1997, the Lockheed Martin-Boeing F-22 Raptor still looks like it came from the future. Sporting both a curved body and hard-edged angles as well as ...
The Squadron, the new management training center in Manhattan's Financial District, is where ex-fighter pilots use F-35 flight simulators to give corporate executives lessons about business and life.
Fighter pilots can black out in seconds during high-G flying. Here's how flight experts say they train to stay conscious. By Ella Sherman ...
The problem is a bigger challenge for a growing segment of Air Force flight crews — the 118 female fighter pilots in jets such as the F-15 Eagle, F-16 Fighting Falcon, F-22 Raptor, F-35 ...
A World War Two American fighter pilot has been surprised with a flight in a Mustang aeroplane 80 years to the day after he was shot down. Joe Peterburs was escorting United States Air Force ...
WASHINGTON >> The Air Force fighter pilot tapped to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff got his call sign by ejecting from a burning F-16 fighter jet high above the Florida ...
In training fighter pilots, the U.S. military uses a centrifuge to emulate the g-forces they'd experience in a fighter jet, up to 20 g. In the air, they often wear a "g-suit" that pressurizes ...
Navy pilots welcomed home after deployment defending against Houthi attacks 02:26. U.S. Navy fighter pilots came home to Virginia feeling relieved Friday after ... Dressed in green flight suits, ...
At Nellis Air Force Base, the U.S. Air Force Weapons School, reserved for the branch’s most talented pilots, is housed in the Boyd Building, named after renowned fighter pilot and military ...