The California Capital Airshow returned on Saturday and Sunday, filling the skies over Rancho Cordova with spectacular aerial demonstrations.

Lawmakers are scrambling to ensure troops will be paid in case of a looming government shutdown, including Coast Guard members who typically go without paychecks during the closing of federal agencies.

The first “hot-pit” refueling of an F-35A Lightning II during the inaugural overseas deployment of Japan’s fifth-generation fighter jets took place on Guam.

Enlisted airmen will be hitting the books harder and sooner for professional studies as a result of a wide-ranging overhaul of the Air Force’s education program.

The Tuskegee Airmen Flight Academy exposes students to careers in aviation, an industry in which people of color are traditionally underrepresented. The program offers flight instruction and ground school classes leading to a private pilot license.

F-35 fighter jets are available to fly only 55% of the time, and 73% of replacement parts must be sent back to suppliers because the Pentagon’s maintenance depots are inadequate, according to a new report from government auditors.

A cadre of Bay State lawmakers on Capitol Hill have called on the U.S. Air Force to open up on the status of a planned semiconductor lab at a base outside Boston that they say serves a vital national security need.

Yokota Air Base, home of the 374th Airlift Wing and headquarters of 5th Air Force and U.S. Forces Japan, may be the only U.S. military airfield where automobile traffic crosses a portion of an active runway. When July 4 lightning doused the lights that control vehicular traffic across the south end of the runway, the repairs demanded more than a trip to the hardware store.

A commander in the Air Force’s Global Strike Command, which is responsible for supporting nuclear deterrence and carrying out worldwide U.S. strike operations, has been removed from his position after only a few weeks in the job.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said he will attempt to secure the confirmations of Air Force Gen. C.Q. Brown to be the next chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Randy George to be Army chief of staff and Gen. Eric Smith to be the commandant of the Marine Corps.