U-2 pilots with the 99th Reconnaissance Squadron may still be operating an aircraft designed more than 60 years ago, but now they also wear Garmin watches and bring off-the-shelf tablets into the ...

The 99th Fighter Squadron, the first all-black fighter squadron, was formed before the attack on Pearl Harbor, which launched the United States into World War II in 1941. The first class of pilots ...

Ramone Hemphill is the founder of The 99 th Squadron, a non-profit organization dedicated to introducing students of color to the aviation industry by removing barriers-to-entry through educational ...

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Flying over a new airdrome near Alabama’s famed Tuskegee Institute this week, U.S. Army Air Forces pilots looked down on something new in the world. The air field, still abuilding, looked like many ...

Six decades after completing their World War II mission and coming home to a country that discriminated against them because they were black, the Tuskegee Airmen are getting high honors from Congress.

Maj. Jeffrey Anderson is the first Air Force reservist to qualify to fly the U-2 spy plane. Anderson, who's been an airline pilot for the past two years, had to go through rigorous training to fly the ...

Now that Air Education and Training Command has its first T-7, the 99th Flying Training Squadron's instructor pilots will start getting familiar with it.

When members of the 99th Pursuit Squadron got their wings in March 1942, the honor was more than just recognition of the training they’d undergone to serve as pilots in the U.S. military. As LIFE ...

DECATUR, Ga. (FOX 5 Atlanta) - A Decatur man who spent World War II flying dozens of missions over Europe celebrated his 99th birthday Wednesday. Frank Burnette was part of the 99th Bomb Group, 416th ...