The Boeing B-29 was one of the most sophisticated aircraft of WWII. It featured many innovations ...

Known as the 'Jug' because of its distinctive fuselage shape, the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt flew ...

Built as both a fighter-interceptor and fighter-bomber, the F-86 Sabre (sometimes called the Sabr...

Equipped with a W38 thermonuclear warhead and with a range of 5,500 nautical miles, the Titan I w...

Created by famed Lockheed designer Kelly Johnson, the F-104 Starfighter was designed to compete w...

Used primarily as a long-range bomber escort in raids over Germany, the North American P-51 Musta...

The first ICBM to be developed and deployed by the United States, the Atlas had a range of 5500 n...

Originally designed as a high-altitude interceptor, the P-38 was the first U.S. fighter of WWII t...

The F-111 Aardvark flew 4000 combat missions during the Vietnam War, struck Libya in 1986, and sa...

An outgrowth of the Third Reich's Emergency Fighter Program, the Messerschmitt P.1101 jet fighter...

The XB-70 Valkyrie was an aircraft ahead of its time. Equipped with drooping wingtips, and design...

Designed by Douglas Aircraft Co.'s brilliantengineer Ed Heinemann, the turbojetpowered, delta-win...

Visionary designer Jack Northrop built a series of experimental 'flying wing' aircraft both befor...

Created by famed Lockheed designer Kelly Johnson, the F-104 Starfighter was designed to compete w...

The first ICBM to be developed and deployed by the United States, the Atlas had a range of 5500 n...

The U.S. Air Force's first all-jet strategic bomber, the swept-wing Boeing B-47 Stratojet had a r...

Used primarily as a long-range bomber escort in raids over Germany, the North American P-51 Musta...

The USAF's first jet-powered bomber capable of reaching Mach 2.0, the Convair B-58 Hustler carrie...

As late as 1940, the majority of Army Air Force trainees received flight lessons in biplanes such...

Conceived during the dark days of the Cold War, the U-2 is a single-engine, single-seat, surveill...

Designed in 1948 by the brilliant Walter Beech, the T-34 Mentor was intended as a low cost replac...

Here is the Official US Air Force guide to staying alive in survival situations—first aid, concea...

Developed as a derivative of the F-15 Eagle air superiority fighter, McDonnell Douglas' (now Boei...

Written for use in formal United States Air Force survival training courses, the U.S. Air Force S...

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With the first prototype rolling off the assembly line in 1935, the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress w...