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Flying Lemons: NATO’s 5 Worst Fighter Jets Ever

NATO’s reputation for cutting-edge airpower masks a roster of troubled jets that stumbled through the jet age’s steep ...
It is already known that the Spanish Navy is going to be left without fixed-wing aircraft, as it has no replacement for its ...
The Marines will rebrand a squadron as pilots switch to the F-35B Lightning II. The transition from the AV-8B Harrier to the F-35B is part of modernization. The change is part of service-wide plans to ...
Marine Attack Squadron 231 fly AV-8B Harrier IIs in formation during the squadron’s final flight ceremony at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, on May 29. (Lance Cpl. Bryan Giraldo ...
Members, aerospace professionals and aviation enthusiasts are invited to the Weybridge Branch's lecture, titled "Life in the cockpit from Grasshopper to Harrier".
After decades of defining close air support and naval aviation, the AV-8B Harrier II has taken its final bow. The Marines’ “Ace of Spades” squadron marked the end of an era with one last flight, ...
A storied AV-8B Harrier — a fighter plane that can lift off vertically — is the most recent historical aircraft delivered to an old Marine Corps Airstation El Toro hangar at the Irvine Great Park that ...
BAGRAM, Afghanistan -- The United States has moved Marine Corps attack jets to Afghanistan, the military said Wednesday, replacing carrier-based warplanes in the Arabian Sea that have moved closer to ...
The old Harrier is a temperamental beast, and sometimes it refuses to fly. Today, Oct. 9, 2010, the fuel pump craps out, and the wrench gang sits around glumly, waiting for the spare part to arrive.