More than a century after the invention of powered flight, birds are still teaching us something about how to fly airplanes, with the Air Force studying the V-shaped formation of airborne geese as ...

We’re deadly serious. Bird strikes on U.S. military aircraft destroyed 27 U.S. Air Force airframes and left 36 airmen dead between 1985 and 2016, according to data compiled by the 28th Bomb Wing ...

WASHINGTON – Air Force Two, the airplane used to fly the vice president, was struck by a bird as it took off from a New Hampshire airport Tuesday evening, forcing it to return safely to the ...

The video was posted to Facebook on November 3, the same day a B-52 crew assigned to Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota reported a bird strike, although Air Force officials could not confirm the ...

To combat the threat to US military aircraft posed by birds and other wildlife, Ellsworth Air Force Base has installed bird cannons. Four years ago, a US military helicopter crashed in the UK ...

An Air Force B-52H Stratofortress bomber was recently damaged in a skirmish along the northern U.S. border with foes a fraction of its size: birds. Air Force spokesperson Justin Oakes said Tuesday ...

Air Force baseball likely dodged a bullet as Sam Kulasingam went undrafted on Monday. There is still a chance Kulasingam could go in a later round of the MLB Draft on Tuesday, but it would seem ...

The Air Force said it's embarking on a "Franken-bird" project to salvage two damaged F-35s. The plan is to match parts from the two fighters to create one fully operational F-35. The project is a ...

Similar accidents caused by birds have been plaguing airmen for years. Recently, the Air Force ordered its Flight Safety Research Section to make a nationwide survey of the problem and see what ...

FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska – Alaska is well known for its mega fauna, animals like moose, bears, caribou, and walruses, but the numbers of those animals are dwarfed by the migratory bird population ...