Fairchild Air Force Base has announced that its 2026 SkyFest air show will be June 6 to 7, showcasing current and historical ...

The Convair B-36 Peacemaker was created to solve a Cold War problem no other aircraft could handle: flying nuclear weapons ...

Barnsley, Eng.: Air World Pen and Sword / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2025. Pp. 304. Illus., plans, tables, biblio., index. $54.95. ISBN: 1526787318 The First ...

Boeing received a $2 billion contract last month to start work on extending the life of 60-year-old U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress bombers into the 2060s. The program to upgrade all 76 B-52Hs is ...

Aviation history is filled with plenty of examples of extraordinary aircraft. From the Wright Brothers’ pioneering plane to the first supersonic jetliner, the Concorde, the worthy few stand out. A ...

The Convair B-36 Peacemaker was unlike any aircraft before it - a massive six-engine piston bomber with four jet engines strapped on for extra thrust. Built at the dawn of the Cold War, it was ...

A relic of military history roared to life on Tuesday morning in downtown St. Helena of all places. Mike Nieman fired up his Pratt & Whitney R-4360 “Wasp Major” radial engine, which was built to power ...

The dangers of using atomic energy to operate military aircraft. Robert Bernier Anything seemed possible during the Atomic Age: (clockwise, from top left) the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab, cutaway ...

One of those challenges was the very limitations of the human body in an environment as unforgiving as space. Beyond the protection provided by the Earth's atmosphere and magnetosphere, human beings ...

Since its founding in 1947, the U.S. Air Force has operated a variety of aircraft. It has plenty of bombers, fighters, transport planes, and more, but not everything the Air Force flies is exceptional ...

On 26 March 1950, a U.S. Air Force Convair B-36 bomber took off with tank-style tracks instead of tires for its landing gear. Military planners were concerned that the B-36, at that time the heaviest ...

She Was Just Massive: The B-36 “Peacemaker” was the largest American warplane to date when it debuted after WWII, designed to carry heavy payloads across intercontinental distances. -Produced by ...