During the Cold War, U.S. planners worried that modern fighters might one day be forced to operate from damaged or shortened runways. That fear drove an extraordinary experiment: turning a standard ...

The US Air Force has given NASA two retired F-15 jets to boost the space agency’s supersonic flight research capabilities. The F-15, the Air Force’s primary fighter jet aircraft and interception ...

NASA completed the first flight of a new laminar-flow scale-model wing on an F-15B testbed that aims to cut drag and reduce fuel burn on future aircraft.

Flight tests of an experimental low-drag laminar flow stub wing section are underway at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research ...

A retired fighter pilot watches his jet roar through the sky one last time. Diane Tedeschi Cesar "Rico" Rodriguez, a retired fighter pilot, attended the arrival of an F-15C at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy ...

NASA's Crossflow Attenuated Natural Laminar Flow (CATNLF) scale-model wing flies for the first time on a NASA F-15 research jet during a ...

LongShot drones are also seen as a new way for bombers and cargo planes to engage aerial threats and reduce vulnerability.

The F-15 Eagle—designed by McDonnell Douglas and fielded in 1976—has anchored U.S. and allied air superiority for nearly five decades Its combat reputation is unmatched: the Eagle community is ...

Iraq’s invasion of its neighbor Kuwait on Aug. 2, 1990, caused an international coalition to respond with Operation Desert Shield, eventually culminating in the Coalition forces taking control of the ...