Cinco de Mayo is a busy day in aviation: Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space, Eastern Flight 855 narrowly averts near Miami, two unrelated hijackings on the same day in 1972, the merger of Air France with KLM and m...
As we recently saw in Canada, fighting fires from the air is no easy task. One payload, one shot to get the water drop right. But what does an areal firefighter do when they need to reload, and there is no natural water source ...
Israel will purchase 20 fifth-generation F-35 stealth jets from the U.S. for almost $2.75 billion, receiving the first jet some time between 2015 and 2017, at $96 million per plane.