The B-52 first flew in the 1950s, yet the U.S. Air Force is still upgrading it to serve into the 2050s and beyond. That ...

"Of the many myths that emerged following the end of the Korean War, the prevailing one in the West was that of the absolute supremacy of US Air Force pilots and aircraft over their Soviet-supplied ...

In the late 1950s, the U.S. Air Force developed Project Lunex, a classified plan to land astronauts on the Moon and build a permanent underground military base. Decades later, declassified documents ...

"The fielding of automated flight controls and weapons systems in fighter aircraft from 1950 to 1980 challenged the significance ascribed to several of the pilots' historical skillsets, such as superb ...