U.S. Air Force pilots are already preparing for the secretive F-47 NGAD, and it starts with the new T-7 Red Hawk trainer.

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.

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 ...

AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (KOAA) — The shelves in Samantha Weeks' home office are filled with reminders of her 23 years as a fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force. The retired Colonel's dream to become a ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...