One More For The Checklist For some pilots, a good-luck charm is standard equipment. Mike ... retired U.S. Air Force fighter pilot Ralph Wetterhahn remembers a Navy pilot who had an odd practice.

A U.S. Navy F/A-18 pilot became the first woman in naval aviation history to score an air-to-air kill after shooting down a drone over the Red Sea.

A US Navy pilot skirted disaster, saving himself and his fighter jet from crashing into the sea. Documents obtained by BI ...

A Navy aviator has become the first woman U.S. pilot to “engage and kill an air-to-air contact” in combat. The military branch said last week that the unnamed Navy pilot, a member of the ...

The pilot had more than 370 flight hours in the Lightning II, got eight hours of sleep before flying and was not dealing with other issues. He was attempting an “expedited recovery” at the ...

A Navy pilot was rescued from the water by helicopter Wednesday morning after ejecting from an F-5 aircraft taking off from Naval Air Station Key West in the Florida Keys, according to station ...

Lt. Cmdr. John Tortorich, 33, is a pilot in the Navy. He was deployed in Iraq and Syria in 2016 aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. Tortorich now trains pilots of Strike Fighter Squadron 105 ...

Navy's 'Top Gun' pilots could rely on AI to assist with dangerous aspects of flight if they face off with China. New tools are the perfect wingman for carrier pilots.

A fighter pilot for the U.S. Navy became the first American woman to earn an air-to-air victory when she shot down a Houthi drone in the Red Sea region.

Former US navy pilot Royce Williams received the Navy Cross for shooting down four Soviet jets in 30 minutes in 1952—a feat he kept secret for half a century.

A Navy investigation is placing blame on a mistake by a pilot for causing the crash of an F-35C Lightning II fighter jet aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in the South China Sea last ...

The Navy's aerial demonstration squadron -- the Blue Angels -- announced that it has selected its first female jet pilot in the unit's 76-year history.. In a social media post Monday, the Blue ...