On Oct. 22 UNCW Chancellor, Aswani Volety, presented the “Dare to Learn Lecture” where NASA astronaut Scott Kelly detailed ...

The first F-35 sporting the ‘TX’ has been officially taken on charge by the "Spads" at NAS JRB Fort Worth in Texas. Nearly a ...

On June 20, 1981, Theresa Claiborne was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force’s first Black female pilot, Claiborne would become the first Black woman to command and ...

The United States Air Force uses specific planes to train its future pilots. Here is the history behind the planes the USAF ...

Three NASA astronauts whose prolonged space mission ended with a trip to the hospital last month won't say which one of them ...

Image courtesy of Sharon Deegan. Flying in high-threat areas over Iraq and Bosnia, these women took on the same risks—with ...

As a space buff, I knew the KC-135 was used to train astronauts for weightlessness. But its main mission is USAF aircraft ...

Most people can withstand up to 4g to 6gs. Fighter pilots with training and special suits can withstand G forces of around 9g ...

In this video, astronaut Charlie Duke, the youngest of the only 12 people to have walked on the moon and one of four still alive today, reacts to popular moon landing conspiracy theories. As the Lunar ...

Modern aircraft are often smaller and slower than their forebears. For example, whereas the F-4 Phantom II could fly at Mach ...

For the past two years, Seattle-area artist Myron Curry has created larger-than-life paintings at Dick Scobee Field featuring local aviation connections.

In May 2010, he was chosen as a member of the second group of astronauts for the PLA Astronaut Division and obtained the ...