NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. - The Air Force is laying the groundwork to start incorporating the T-7A Red Hawk into its pilot training operations. But the service is still about two years away from the first ...

A Denton company just landed an $835 million contract to train U.S. Air Force flight officers over the next decade.

Now that Air Education and Training Command has its first T-7, the 99th Flying Training Squadron's instructor pilots will start getting familiar with it.

The A-29C will be used both for training as part of the Test Pilot School’s curriculum and experimental testing of mission systems, avionics, sensors and weapons. The A-29C Super Tucanos of the U.S.

Faced with a persistent pilot shortage, the U.S. Air Force in 2022 set a demanding goal of training 1,500 pilots per year to chip away at the issue. The target was a stretch. The service had not ...

Changing roles for combat aircraft fleets, the rise of simulation and LVC technologies, and the increasing cost of flight hours could all be leading to a paradigm shift in military pilot training.

A T-6A Texan II taxis on the runway at Sheppard Air Force Base on Jan. 10, 2019. An instructor pilot killed in a training mishap last year died after accidentally pulling the handle on his ejection ...

However, not all Air Force bases are expansive hubs filled with combat aircraft and long flight lines. Some of the service’s ...

An Air Force report found that Capt. John Robertson's death on May 13, 2024 likely came from not being properly strapped into his T-6A when his ejection seat accidentally triggered. By Nicholas ...