When you're the U.S. Military, you go big or go home. But as it happens, even the Air Force has a limit when it comes to this ideology. It's hard to judge where they draw this line. But the massive, ...

In the early 1950s, the U.S. Air Force wanted a turbojet-powered heavy strategic bomber to lug atomic bombs across oceans. Convair had built the piston-engine B-36 for the Air Force and decided that ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Defense Department ultimately canceled the F-12 on cost grounds and opted not to proceed with the RS-12, as ballistic missiles were beginning to supplant manned ...

For weeks, Ira Cain, 42-year-old military editor of Amon Carter’s Fort Worth Star-Telegram, had been working to get a beat. He hoped to report the maiden flight at Fort Worth of Consolidated Vultee’s ...