Edwards Air Force Base News

Paul Hattendorf, Lockheed Martin test pilot, was flying an Airframe Loads Envelope Expansion mission June 11 when the fighter reached the milestone.

Depending on who's talking, the North American F-107A was either the best fighter the Air Force didn't have the sense to buy, or a politically flawed loser from the outset.

The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II lifts off during testing at Edwards Air Force Base on March 19, 2013.

With a profile that would never be considered glamorous, the Douglas Skyknight was a conventional design delivering truly mediocre performance.

When it appeared at the flight test facility at California's Muroc Air Force Base in 1948, the Northrop X-4 Bantam was the 98-pound weakling of research airplanes.

PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - Air Force Materiel Command has ensured that help is literally just a click away at its installations.

Wednesday is World U.F.O. Day . Since 2001, the quirky holiday has titillated Mulder and Scully wannabes across the world, giving them another excuse to check the skies for flying saucers.

Whether from rising seas, eroding coasts, thawing permafrost or worsening wildfires, American military installations across the world are in the line of fire from climate change , the Government Accountability Office and the Department of Defense have found.

Pentagon grounds entire F-35 fighter jet fleet Luke Air Force Base's two F-35s are idled as part of the order Check out this story on azcentral.com: http://azc.cc/1lmchpC Two F-35s, similar to this one, are stationed in Glendale at Luke Air Force Base, which is slated to become the Air Force's largest F-35 pilot-training base.

In the latest setback for the Pentagon's nearly $400-billion F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, the U.S. military has grounded all of the fighter jets from flight operations after one of them caught fire at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida earlier this week.

Ruhamah Dawn Taylor Pate, 87, longtime resident of Wichita Falls passed away Monday, May 12, in Wichita Falls, Texas.

"AF-2's nickname is 'Workhorse,'" said Randy Thompson, the F-35 Integrated Test Force, government air vehicle lead.

The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II lifts off during testing at Edwards Air Force Base in March 2013.

The HiMAT subscale research aircraft, seen here during a research flight in December 1980, demonstrated advanced fighter technologies that have been used in the development of many modern high performance military aircraft.

Image Caption: The HiMAT subscale research aircraft, seen here during a research flight in December 1980, demonstrated advanced fighter technologies that have been used in the development of many modern high performance military aircraft.