KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The future of the 442d Fighter Wing at Whiteman Air Force Base hangs in the balance as the Air Force phases out the A-10. That’s the fighter that calls the wing home ...
A full-time pilot for American Airlines, Hilkert is now in the Air Force Reserves assigned to the 442 nd Fighter Wing at Whiteman. Sharing the same tarmac and runways with the active-duty and ...
An F-35A Lightning II assigned to the 301st Fighter Wing taxis on the flightline for the first time Nov. 5, 2024 at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas. The unit is officially ...
Recently (August 2024), units from the 3rd Wing were redeployed to the Middle East amid spiking tensions with Iran and its Houthi and Hezbollah proxies. While the B-52s are known to have gunned down ...
Lightsaber, the force, perhaps even wookies, and, of course, the X-Wing starfighter. That sleek silver fighter that’s darted across our screens since the original Star Wars trilogy.
3. MiG-9 (1947): Russia’s first jet fighter, powered by British Rolls-Royce engines. 4. MiG-15 (1949): A swept-wing, jet-powered fighter that saw action in the Korean War. Cold War Era ...
The U.S. F-16 fighter has served admirably since its introduction ... the aircraft’s fuselage while a modified, thickened left-wing pulled in boundary layer air flowing over the wing to enable ...