Being a fighter jet pilot is undoubtedly one of the most demanding roles in aviation, requiring exceptional physical and mental strength, knowledge of technical systems and an astute tactical ...

Seventh generation fighters are being designed around a simple, unsettling premise: the human body is becoming the limiting factor in air combat. As engineers push toward hypersonic speeds, ...

Navy Veteran Dan Baxter speaking in corporate classrooms with Spartan TP – all photos Dan Baxter Naval Academy graduate, ...

In one scene from National Geographic’s new limited series about naval fighter pilots, Navy Lt. j.g. Andrew Seepe speeds back to base in his T-45 Goshawk trainer following a successful skills test.

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 ...

The human body has not evolved to meet the physical demands of flying a fighter jet. High G-forces, high altitude, low oxygen—the fighter jet places the human body in an environment and in situations ...

As most people understand, the ejection sequence begins when the fighter pilot yanks an ejection handle, usually located either between the legs or above the head. The pulling of the handle triggers ...

Michelle “MACE” Curran made history after she became the second-ever woman to fly as Lead Solo Pilot for the United States Air Force demonstration team, the Thunderbirds, in 2019. Her powerful ...

The email arrived in Michelle Curran’s inbox at a most inconvenient time, shortly before she was to report to Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico for her next assignment. Under almost any other ...