TRONA, Calif. — A fighter jet with the Air Force’s elite Thunderbirds demonstration squadron crashed in the Southern California desert Wednesday, but the pilot managed to eject safely, the military ...

The development of autonomous pilots is moving faster than the Air Force had expected, as a flight last month showed.

A F-35 pilot spent 50 minutes on a conference call mid-air with engineers to solve a problem with a $200 million jet before it plummeted onto the runway at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska, forcing ...

Air Force Lt. Col. Phillip “Clean” Bourquin, 99th Flying Training Squadron director of operations, and Steve “Bull” Schmidt, Boeing test pilot, prepare to disembark the T-7A Red Hawk after its ...