There aren’t many current and former U-2 spy plane pilots in the world, but I recently had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with one of them. Stan Rauch, who turns 80 this month, grew up at Lake ...

Forbes writer Jim Clash takes off off from Beale AFB in the back of a U-2 spy plane, August 21 ... The eye-wall winds were intense - I thought the wings were going to fall off of the fuselage.

Today, the YF-12A remains the closest the United States has ever come to producing an armed, Mach 3-capable aircraft. On May 1st, 1960 the Soviet Union shot down a U-2 spy plane over the USSR with ...

He was sitting for debriefing when mechanics burst in the room to show him two metal fragments from a missile’s nose cone they had found buried under his low left wing—just shy of his jet’s ...

There aren’t many current and former U-2 spy plane pilots in the world ... so I cranked the plane to the left and the wing caught a ship’s anchor chain that was used as a guardrail.

Washington sources said Beijing might even move to charge the crew with espionage and put them on trial - a grim echo of the 1960 incident when an American U2 spy plane ... of a wing and part ...

Aircraft manufacturers are racing to build the jet of the future as airlines demand more efficient planes. Among the most likely concepts is a blended-wing-body aircraft, which combines the ...

The last EP-3E Aries II of VQ-1 "World Watchers" has completed its final operational mission and returned home. On Oct. 29, ...

The new flying wing CH-7 UCAV has a blended wing-body airframe with a high level of stealth and long-range capability, ...

"Blended wing" aircraft could be the future of commercial aviation. Airbus and the startups JetZero and Natilus are leading development of these efficient flying wings. The jets would burn ...

Modern airplanes are inspired by birds but Princeton researchers find one aspect, we have not used so far and it could help ...