According to Loft, which opened its first U.S. hub at California's Santa Monica Airport (KSMO) in 2024, CBP pilots rely entirely on live helicopter flights for training. As a result, they may ...

May 12, 2023: The U.S. Air Force is having F-22 pilots test a new model DASH (Display and Sight Helmet) pilot helmet. The AV-2 helmet was developed by LIFT Airborne Technologies. The AV-2 was winner ...

A pilot trains on a Loft Dynamics simulator for an Airbus H125 helicopter at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. I am hovering in a valley in the Swiss Alps on a beautiful day in a ...

Technology has played a dominant role in rewriting the rules of warfare. Today, a military's might is increasingly influenced not so much by its size, but rather by the sophistication and ...

Since most people tend to not fly first class, jetting around in a hulking metal contraption in cramped quarters tends to be its own little hell bubble, often requiring the saving graces of tiny ...

Cadet 1st Class Cade Cavanagh uses a virtual reality system to practice flying skills during a Pilot Training Next course in Summer 2019 at the Air Force Academy airfield. The academy has now launched ...

This week, Lockheed Martin officially took delivery of a key part of the F-35 fighter’s combat functionality—the pilot’s helmet. The most expensive and complicated piece of headgear ever constructed, ...

Most people update their wardrobe every once in a while, and after 40 years, the Air Force is looking to do the same with one of the most important pieces in its catalog: the helmet aircrew members ...

In a world where economy-class seats are getting thinner and lavatories are shrinking, any flight longer than an hour can feel like a traveling prison. Aircraft manufacturer Airbus is abetting the ...

Pilots of fixed-wing Air Force aircraft have been wearing the same helmet for nearly 40 years, but that could soon change with a new brain bucket that’s lighter, more comfortable, more adaptable and ...