There aren’t many current and former U-2 spy plane pilots in the world, but I recently had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with one of them. Stan Rauch, who turns 80 this month, grew up at Lake ...

As prep for a Kansas trip to participate in a KC-135 mid-air refueling, we thought it would be interesting to revisit other ...

There aren’t many current and former U-2 spy plane pilots in the world, but I recently had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with one of them. Stan Rauch, who turns 80 this month, grew up at ...

Another long-serving U.S. military aircraft has completed its final operational deployment, with the return of the U.S.

The last EP-3E Aries II of VQ-1 "World Watchers" has completed its final operational mission and returned home. On Oct. 29, ...

In a September 1965 test, a YF-12 successfully launched a quarter-kiloton atomic missile, from an altitude of 75,000 feet at ...

While the book centers on this specific case in Baltimore, what larger story does it tell us about surveillance, technology, and law enforcement in the U.S.? The main thing I found is that the spy ...

Following on the heels of several U-2 spy plane shootdowns, Washington was no longer willing to authorize overflights of Soviet territory which the A-12 had been designed to perform. Meanwhile ...

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) previously flew the U-2 Dragon Lady as its primary spy plane. However, when a USSR SA-2 ...

When the F-111 first entered service during the Cold War, it became the first platform capable of performing in multiple ...