Welcome back to the Daily Aviation for a feature on the F-18's journey to becoming one of the most dependable fighter ...

Market is largely propelled by growing defense expenditures, the rising need for enhanced survivability & combat efficiency and escalating geopolitical tensions WILMINGTON, DE, UNITED STATES, July 7, ...

The squadron is expected to receive its first F-35B later this year and is now actively working to achieve "Safe for Flight" certification.

Without peeking, can you guess which two years a loss to Army or Air Force kept Nebraska from going undefeated?

As investigation into the Air India plane crash continues, one black box has been recovered. Meanwhile, police has stated ...

Capt. Sterling Gilliam, USN (Ret.) says the National Naval Aviation Museum is the third-largest aviation museum in the world, drawing approximately 600,000 visitors annually – making it the Gulf ...

PATUXENT RIVER, Md., May 7, 2025 — Naval Aviation News (NAN), the flagship publication of naval aviation since 1917, secured first place in the Team Publication category of the Navy Public ...

Naval museum researchers found two photographs of aviator Eugene Burton Ely, the first man to land an airplane on a ship. They used the 1911 photos to build a minute-long Mutoscope film about the ...

Imagine being a child and seeing the Navy’s premier flight demonstration squadron, the Blue Angels, performing for the first time. That’s the premise of Thach and the Blues, the first children’s book ...

Kyle’s articles have appeared at The Daily Beast, U.S. Naval Institute News, The Diplomat, Foreign Policy, Combat Aircraft Monthly, VICE News, and others. He lives in San Francisco.

A few years later, the Navy equipped the Blue Angels with the F9F-8 Cougar, which it used between 1954 and 1957, but aviation technology was racing along.

Yes, I was an AT2—Aviation Electronics Technician Second Class, a petty officer. I joined the Navy in 2007 in hopes to find a way to get back to college. I had started off college at the University of ...