In the mid 1950s, the Department of the Air Force had a manual data communications system for punched card traffic and a separate system for teletype communications. These manual data systems had ...

The Air Force’s X-20 Dyna Soar Mach 20 Mistake? -In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the U.S. Air Force pursued the X-20 ...

The Air Force is turning to half-century-old refueling equipment to get its pilots off the flight lines and back up into the air as quickly as possible. The U.S. Air Force has used hot refueling in ...

The establishment of the U.S. Air Force on Sept. 18, 1947, marked the day the Army Air Forces' brown shoes and like equipment would soon see black dye applied. By 1952, the “old brown shoe days” were ...

After graduating from Russellville High School in 1948, Herb Raithel received a couple of military draft deferments allowing him to continue to help on his parents' farm. However, after a couple of ...

Fresh out of school, Alton Yates needed to make money, so he signed up for the Air Force. His job? Riding rocket-propelled sleds, to help test... A Teenager In The 1950s, Extreme Sledding For The Air ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Only five prototypes were built. One did see combat—it flew in support of military rebels who overthrew Perón in 1955. In the end, Argentina ended up with British ...

The U.S. Air Force in early 2020 expects to formally request proposals from industry for replacing the engines on the flying branch’s 76 B-52 bombers. by David Axe Follow @daxe on Twitter L The U.S.