The new facility at Trapani-Birgi will make the Sicilian base Italy’s third operational F-35 hub and a future multinational training center for NATO and partner nations. Italy’s Ministry of Defense ...

Pilot ranks, denoted by stripes on their uniforms, represent a pilot's seniority, experience, responsibilities, and corresponding compensation, with ranks typically progressing from Cadet to Captain.

Marines with Advanced Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry–East, load a Mjolnir munitions system on a SkyRaider. (Cpl. Zachariah Ferraro/Marine Corps) Keeping in step with the Pentagon’s ...

LONDONDERRY — Pilot Paul Russo is an expert on a really cool subject, having landed at the Ice Runway at Alton Bay, N.H. more than 100 times since his first visit in 2005. It’s a landing strip that ...

1:06 p.m. Dec. 13, 2025: Updated with a statement from the Cresson fire chief. A small plane veered off the runway after landing at Bourland Field Airport in Cresson and went into a ditch Friday ...

The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) is calling for a renewed emphasis on fundamental manual flying skills, citing safety data indicating an erosion of pilot proficiency due to increasing automation ...

A pilot was hospitalized after a Thunderbird F-16C Fighting Falcon crashed during an Air Force training mission Wednesday, Dec. 3, in Trona in rural San Bernardino County, military officials said Fire ...

Austin Turner is a web producer at CBS News Los Angeles. An Inland Empire native, Austin earned a degree in journalism from San Jose State University in 2020. Before joining CBS News in 2025, he ...

A piece of aircraft equipment fell during takeoff Monday in Las Vegas, airport officials confirmed. Las Vegas Metro Police said most traffic crashes are preventable as the department works to address ...

A pilot was hospitalized after a Thunderbird F-16C Fighting Falcon crashed during an Air Force training mission Wednesday, Dec. 3, in Trona in rural San Bernardino County, military officials said Fire ...

A Thunderbird pilot was hospitalized on Wednesday after they were ejected during a training mission in California, a U.S. Air Force spokesperson said. The pilot, who was not identified, was “safely ...