In the mid 1950s, the Department of the Air Force had a manual data communications system for punched card traffic and a separate system for teletype communications. These manual data systems had ...

The McDonnell-Douglas F-4 Phantom II is one of the most iconic aircraft of the early Cold War period. -It was designed at a ...

The Air Force is turning to half-century-old refueling equipment to get its pilots off the flight lines and back up into the air as quickly as possible. The U.S. Air Force has used hot refueling in ...

The Douglas C-54 Skymaster departed Anchorage on January 26, 1950, carrying 42 service members and Joyce Espe—a pregnant ...

The establishment of the U.S. Air Force on Sept. 18, 1947, marked the day the Army Air Forces' brown shoes and like equipment would soon see black dye applied. By 1952, the “old brown shoe days” were ...

The C-124 Globemaster was one of the aircraft that members of the Warner Robins Air Materiel Area worked on at Robins Air Force Base in the 1950s. ASSOCIATED PRESS Last summer while working in the ...

After graduating from Russellville High School in 1948, Herb Raithel received a couple of military draft deferments allowing him to continue to help on his parents' farm. However, after a couple of ...

The Air Force’s X-20 Dyna Soar Mach 20 Mistake? -In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the U.S. Air Force pursued the X-20 Dyna-Soar: a manned, reusable, winged spaceplane meant to ride a Titan booster, ...

Fresh out of school, Alton Yates needed to make money, so he signed up for the Air Force. His job? Riding rocket-propelled sleds, to help test... A Teenager In The 1950s, Extreme Sledding For The Air ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Only five prototypes were built. One did see combat—it flew in support of military rebels who overthrew Perón in 1955. In the end, Argentina ended up with British ...